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.
INTRODUCTION
Fourteenth tale: Jirylcn Ulan Xacir - The Glad Red-faced [hero] 1 15 Fifteenth tale: Kecii Berk bätr - Hard Solid hero 126 Ethnographic Texts 140 Xal'imigln (öirädin) ger abalyan (Kaim. Xal'mgin (ördin) ger awlyn) - The Wedding of the Kalmyk (Oirat) 140 Xal 'imigln nüdül (Kaim. Xal 'mgin nüdl) - The Nomadising of the Kalmyks 147 Xal 'imiyüd yayaji malän xäriüldek tuskin 7 (Kaim. Xal 'myüdyäj maian xärüldg tusk n')- About How the Kalmyks Pasture their Livestock 149 Khal'imigin [siel] malin üsünä tuski (Kaim. Xal'mgin malin iisnä tusk) - About the Milk of the Domestic Animals of the Kalmyk(s) 154 Xöinä üstin (Kalm. Xönä üsn) - Sheep-milk 159 Gfinä iisün (Kalm. Günä üsn) - Mare-milk 160 Man'ixal'imiyüdyayajixöiyän xäiciledek (kiryadik) tuski, (Kalm. Manäxal'myüdyäj xögän xäcldg (kirydg) tusk) - A chapter about how the Kalmyks shear the sheep 162 Xal 'imiyüdyayaji sobüyär angyucildigin tuski (Bálint Xal 'myüdyäj sowüyär angyücildg tusk) — A chapter about how the Kalmyks hunt with birds 165 Uruldan, nöldan, xulxa (Kalm. Urldän, nöldän, xulxä) - Horse racing. Wrestling and Stealing 170 Private and Official letters 172 Customs 178 Xal 'imegin [sic!] saxa abdigin tuski (Kalm. Xal 'mgin saxä awdgin tusk) -About the Oath Taking among the Kalmyks 178 Xal 'imigin ükül (Kalm. Xal 'mgin ükl) - The death among the Kalmyks 181 The Oirat-Mongolian Chrestomathy of the Grammar" The texts were compiled to serve a practical purpose as well - to be used as a manual in mastering the language. The shorter poetic texts and the letters, dialogues precede the longer narratives, as Bálint indicated: "As the Mongolian poetical style is much simpler than that of the prose, I put the folk-songs before the prose pieces .,.". 6 4 Phrases and Conversation 180 1. [49 sentences] 1 80 2. [Dialogue, 16 sentences] 182 3. [Dialogue, 9 sentences] 183 4. [Dialogue, 11 sentences] 184 5. [Dialogue, 15 sentences] 185 6. [Dialogue, 12 sentences] 187 Folk poesy 188 6: 1 Chrestomathy of the Grammar p. 125 (p. 142). 6 4 Chrestomathy p 125 (p. 142). 18
