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

- Ükr Khar Baatr,

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6 having a yellow spotted horse the size of a mountain, is coming to take your life. - Thereafter the khan left. As he was going, there was a man lying asleep in front of him. Thereafter Chuluun Khar Baatr arrived [at him] and knocked him down (hit)

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7 him seventy-two times and left. Thereafter the Ükr Khar Baatr said: - Is it a louse that bites

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8 me or is it a flea

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6'' that bites me?

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0 - And he stood up. Chuluun Khar Baatr said: - I hit you - Thereafter Ükr Khar Baatr said: - Now I will hit you. [90] - He hit Chuluun Khar Baatr, he hit him and his horse and cutting them in two killed them. He roasted [Chuluun Khar Baatr's] horse and slept for seven times seven, fortynine days.

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1 Thereafter a son was born from Chuluun Khar Baatr's wife. That son asked his mother: - What happened to my father? - Thereupon his mother said: - Your father has been killed by Ükr Khar Baatr having a yellow spotted horse the size of a mountain. - Thereafter the son asked his mother: - Do we have a horse stud? - His mother said: Under the moon we have got one million and one thousand one hundred horses. Under the sun we have got eight times ten thousand horses. - Thereafter the boy went to the stud. Arriving at the stud, he asked his groom: - Catch and give me a good horse! - The groom caught and gave him a black brown ambler. Thereafter the boy arrived home and mounted a poor saddle [on the horse], took a poor sword and a poor whip and left. Thereafter the boy Galloped for several years, Galloped immeasurably much

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2 pulled [at his horse' mouth] and stopped. Upon looking around, [he found that] in front of him there appeared Ükr Khar Baatr having a yellow spotted horse the size of a mountain, sleeping after having killed his father and roasted his horse. [91] Thereafter the boy went to him and said: - Get up! - And hit him. - Are naughty lice eating me?

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3 - Saying so, he got up. Thereafter Ükr Khar Baatr said: - Will you die on your father's bones or will you die at other place? — Thereupon the boy said: - It is not me, who will be killed here.

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4 - Thereafter the Ükr Khar Baatr said: - Should I, the old[er] strike [first] or should you, the young strike [first]? - Thereupon the boy said: - I will not strike you, the old one.

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5 - Then Ükr Khar Baatr arrived at the greatest speed of his yellow spotted horse the size of a mountain and hit [the boy]. That blow was for the boy just like a flea bite and did not feel it. Thereafter the boy said laughing: 76

6 Bálint: Ükür Xara Bätur, Kalm. Ükr Xar Bätr "Ox Black Hero". The epithet: ülain diingge sara cöxor morilä. Kalm ülän dünggä sar cöxr mörtä. 76

7 Bálint's interpolation: daräd (cokäd) yaräd odba. 7,1

8 Bálint ideji bäinä

, Kalm. idj bän lit. "[it] eats". 76

9 Bálint bürge, Kalm. bürg "flea". " Typical formula in Kalmyk tales. ' It is an allusion on the Bardo, cf. chapter The Death among the Kalmyks. 77

2 For this motif cf. Sixth tale. 77

1 Bálint Xorta idedek bösön bp, Kalm. Xortä iddg bösn bp Lit. "Is it a venomous louse?". 77

4 Bálint Űndü cigi aladik bisi bi.. Kalm. Űnd cig alüldg (causativ ?) biSw. Lit. "Neither here will I be killed.". 7

7' Bálint Köksin la cigi cokodik. ügä bi.. Kalm. Köksn land (dativ ?) cig coküldg (causative) ügä w. 112