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Churilo Plenkovich
CHURILO'S name does not appear in any of the
old Chronicles.
The epithet applied to old Penko, surozhanin,
indicates his business of silk-merchant or trader on
the Surog Sea—the Sea of Azof. Another explanation
professes to include Churilo's mythical significance, by
deriving the term from the same Sanskrit root as
Svarog, the Slavic Saturn.
The numerous attendants credited to Prince Vladimir
belong to the Moscow epoch, and present a strange
contrast to the plainness and simplicity of the court
of Kief. Churilo met his death at the hands of an
enraged husband, the Bermyag mentioned in the song.
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