Вивчаючи шедевр середньовічної літератури - "Слово о полку Ігоревім", присвячений походу на
половців новгород-сіверського князя Ігоря Святославича в 1185 р., дослідники звертали увагу наряд
язичницьких мотивів. Це потверджується й численними археологічними та іншими даними, що
дає змогу говорити про існування в XII ст. в Київській Русі ідеологічного синкретизму.
The history of Kyiv Rus is still the topic of researches of specialists in different branches of Science. And this
is not strange because only after a synthetic connection of their work results it is possible to get new knowledge
about this period of Ukrainian history. There are a lot of specific topics of researches of Old Rus period but there
are many among them that attract attention to themselves. One of them is the epoch of writing of masterpiece of
Middle Ages literature that is well-known all over the world - "A word about Igor s regiment".
When studying the masterpiece of Middle Ages literature - "A word about Igor s regiment" that is dedicated
to the campaign of Novgorod-Siversky prince Igor Sviatoslavych against polovtsy in 1185, the researchers paid
attention to the number of heathen motives. This is confirmed by numerous archaeological and other data this
make possibility of speaking about the existence of ideological syncretism in Rus during XIIth century.
