Birtalan Ágnes: Kalmyk Folklore and Folk Culture in the Mid-19th Century: Philological Studies on the Basis of Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna’s Kalmyk Texts.
FOLKLORE GENRES
- Stand up, strike him in the face and throw him out! - Thereupon Glad Ulaan Khachir embraced the lad who was going to strike him in his face, tossed him onto the maid's bosom and left. [119]. As he left the yurt, a boy came, he had a two-year-old colt with A belly the size of an ox, and Thighs the size of grasshoppers and said: - Dear 87 1 elder brother, I will hold your horse's reins. - Thereupon Glad Ulaan Khachir said: - No, you are not able to hold it. - Yes, I am. - Thereupon: - Well, hold it! - Thereafter they together [said]: - Let's compete for the maid. - One competition is the horse race, one competition is wrestling, and one competition is shooting with gun. Who wins in these three competitions will get the maid. They talked so. Thereafter: - The horse race is [won by the one] who grasps and brings three red apples from a distance of forty-nine shouts. 87 2 - And they started the horse race. Then "I will ride," said the boy, sprung on our lad's horse and galloped away. The other man sent a scrubby old woman with a copper nose, 87 , reedy shin and eyes the size of a well. After the race started, a thin red dust [cloud] appeared. Then the owner of the old woman said: - The fisherman should prepare the hook, the hunter should prepare the gun, and the man who throws the lasso should prepare the lasso, because our old woman whom we have put in the race is coming. - Meanwhile our lad's horse was coming. Then they won the horse race and said: - We've won one competition. - Thereafter everybody together said: - You've won. - Thereafter [comes] the competition of shooting with gun: one has to hit a cartilage of an ox's tail, 87 4 the strap of a bundle of firewood, 87 5 then a fire with nine tongues of flame [120] must be set and then the bullet must be caught [marksman's] hand and [finally] put in the maid's hand. Well, these [other competing people] shot, shot and could not hit [the target]. Then our lad shot his bullet, hit the strap of the bound-up wood for fuel on an oxen cart, the cartilage of an ox's tail, grasped it with his hand and put is in the maid's hand. - We've won two competitions. - He said. Thereafter [came] the wrestling; they 87 6 prepared a big black cart that was pulled by nine black horses and a big man sat into it. Then our man's [sic!] groom, the previous poor boy, said: - 1 will wrestle. - Then his master said: - Wrestle! - Then that big man in the cart said without getting off the cart: - Which is the one who will wrestle with me? - Our poor boy came running and said: - 1 am the one who will wrestle with you. - Thereupon that man said: - Will you grasp me? 87 7 — He said and was about to come back. - Thereupon our boy ran at him and Struck him in the right cheek and He lost his mind, 87 8 Struck him in the left cheek, He made him rave. 87 9 Thereafter that man: 87 1 Bálint bäxan . Kalm. bäxn lit. "little". 87 2 Bálint döcin Visen dünä yazar , Kalm. döcin yüsn dünä yazr a typical measuring of the distance among the Kalmyks. Cf. chapter: About how the Kalmyks Huni with Birds. 87 3 An allusion on the demonic being Mong. mayu sibayun, cf. Birtalan: Die Mythologie, pp. 1007-1008. 8, 4 Bálint ükürin sitiin üyen 7. Kalm. iikrin sitiin iiyn n '. 87 3 Bálint ürüktä tülän 7 désiin 7, Kalm. ürgtä tülän désn n ' lit. "the strap that fastens the loaded fuel wood". 8" I. e. the enemies. 8 Bálint Nama nada bärin-ta ?, Kalm. Namä näda (?) bar nt'' The lexeme näda "on this side, hither" seems to be superfluous. 87 8 Bálint yäriktä gäd orkoba. cf. Kalm. garikté kiln "ein Blödsinniger, wahnsinniger Mensch" (R. 145.), yärgtä "durnoj, glupyj" (Mun. 163-164). 124
