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

[Hei!] If (one) looks at her through the roof-opening she has the appearance of a girfalcon; If (one) is sitting embracing her, she is softer than the down.

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5 [Hei!] If (one) looks at her through the opening above the door, she has the appearance of a peafowl;

436 If she is sitting leaning on her elbows

43 she is softer than the silk. [Hei!] If she is sitting combing her hair (it is like as if she would draw the rainbow of the cloud; The so

4"' beautiful Kharla Shishä is sitting in a shaking manner

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3' [Hei!] Her combed hair covers her sitting place; The so

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4" beautiful Kharla Shishä is sitting and looking for

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4' [Hei!] At the splendent white lake she has scattered her raisin

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4' and sugar; "Khän (king) Dshanamgha

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3 will come" saying she is sitting looking for. [Hei!] On the shore of the large lake Khän (king) Dshanamgha, the graceful, who had (set) let loose his nine hawks is coming to search his (hunting) birds.

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4 [Hei!] "Girl Kharla Shishä pray, give (me) my birds!

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5 The suggested translation: "softer than feather"; Kalm. örwlg "feather". 4"' Bálint logoslon. Grammar-text toghoston, in the wordlist added to the song in the Grammar "toghos, toghoston a peafowl" (Grammar p 192), cf. Kalm D togostn "Pfau", Kalm.Ö togs "Pfau" (R. 397), toystn "pavlin" (Mun. 501). 4,

3 Bálint toxaitdoji süxin

7, Grammar-text tokhaldudshi sükhun 7, Kalm. toxäldj süx n

', cf. Kalm.Ö toxäldxa, toxäldxa "sich auf den Ellbogen stützen; sich mit dem Ellbogen durchdrängen" (R. 397), toxatdx "opirat'sja loktem, oblokaCivat'sja" (Mun. 510). 4,

8 Bálint elme "this kind". Grammar-text teime "that kind", cf. Kalm. im, tim. 43

9 Cf. Id, "sobbing". 44

0 Cf. 4c. 44

1 Cf. Id, 4d "sobbing": Bálint melmelzeji. but Grammar-text kharalkhaji, Bálint's explanation of the song in the Grammar "kahratkha-, khar-la- frequ. of khara- to see, to look" (Grammar p 192). By Ramstedt: xarlxa 2. "angewöhnen, üble Gedanken hegen" (R. 169). 44

2 Bálint casan sikirün asxarüläd "scattering the sugar snow[like?] ", Grammar-text iiziim shikirän askharüläd, Kalm. üzm "raisin". 44

3 Bálint janamya, male proper name, cf. Janama (Schorkowitz 621) 44

4 The motif of the man who searches his lost hunting bird at a woman's living place appear in the folk tales as well. Cf. Twelfth tale (JManuscript pp. 97-98): "The khan's son went to hunt with his falcon

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4 and let it catch a bird; but his falcon sat on the smoke hole covering felt of Ulaadaa Baatr's yurt. [98) Thereafter the khan's son [also] arrived and said: - Ulaadaa Baatr, are you at home? Give me my falcon! - Thereafter Ulaadaa Baatr's wife said: - Ulaadaa Baatr is not at home. - Thereafter the khan's son looking at the wife and seeing her amazing beauty forgot to return home". 44

3 Bálint sobügi-m '. Grammar-text shobügi-m(in 'i). 69