Two Birch Trees (The Tribute Run)
945. Ihor collects the Drevlian tribute, turns back for a second helping and is killed. The news reaches Kyiv; Olha, with a three-year-old son, bars the gate and starts her ledger. Fact: Ihor died among the Drevlians in 945 and Olha ruled as regent for Sviatoslav. Legend: the two bent birch trees come from the Byzantine historian Leo the Deacon and may be borrowed from a Greek myth; the wolf-and-sheep line is the Primary Chronicle's.
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