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The Secret History is regarded as the single most significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan. Linguistically, it provides the richest source of pre-Classical Mongol and Middle Mongol. [2] The Secret History is regarded as a piece of classic literature in both Mongolia and the rest of the world, and has been translated into more than ...
His largest project was a complete annotated translation of the Secret History of the Mongols, of which only the first volume was ever published. [2] In order to give readers the flavor of the original, Cleaves restricted the vocabulary to words used in Elizabethan English , a decision which made the text hard for some readers to comprehend. [ 6 ]
The "three peaks" of Mongol literature, The Secret History of the Mongols, Epic of King Gesar and Epic of Jangar, [3] all reflect the age-long tradition of heroic epics on the Eurasian Steppe. Mongol literature has also been a reflection of the society of the given time, its level of political, economic and social development as well as leading ...
The Yassa (alternatively Yasa, Yasaq, Jazag or Zasag; Mongolian: Их Засаг, romanized: Ikh Zasag) was the oral law code of the Mongols, gradually built up through the reign of Genghis Khan. It was the de facto law of the Mongol Empire, even though the "law" was kept secret and never made public. The Yassa seems to have its origin in ...
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Alan Gua and her sons, from Jami' al-tawarikh, by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Alan Gua (Mongolian: Алун гуа, Alun gua, lit. "Alun the Beauty".Gua or Guva/Quwa means beauty in Mongolian) is a mythical figure from The Secret History of the Mongols, eleven generations after the blue-grey wolf and the red doe, and ten generations before Genghis Khan.
The Secret History of the Mongols records that he was poisoned by Tatars while sharing a meal at a wedding [3] on the way home after leaving Temüjin at the home of Dai Setsen, a noble man of Khongirad tribe, when two fathers, Yesügei and Dai Setsen, agreed that their kids, Temüjin and Börte, would marry. [3]
Damdinsüren wrote poetry that was well received in Mongolia. He also produced prose and literary studies, and a translation of The Secret History of the Mongols into modern Mongolian. The language of his poems and prose was largely based on the oral literary traditions of Mongolia, which he developed into a classical language of the Mongolian ...