Panegyrical poesy, 1430.
The lyrics are by an anonymous author of the 15th century, the text is according to Račynski’s Chronicle ('The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles', V. 35, Moskow, 1980), music is folk, from the BNT chrestomathy: Ballads (Book I, Minsk, 1977). The band thanks the historian Edvard Zajkoŭski for providing the text. The Belarusian phonetic transcription and text adaptation by Zmicier Sasnoŭski.
The Accolade to Vitaut is a monument of Belarusian panegyric prose of the 15th century, created in 1430 in Smolensk, surrounded by the local bishop Iosif.