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| Keywords: Qutulun daughter of Qaidu.jpeg Qaidu Now you must know that King Caidu had a daughter whose name was AIJARUC which in the Tartar is as much as to say The Bright Moon This damsel was very beautiful but also so strong and brave that in all her father's realm there was no man who could outdo her in feats of strength In all trials she showed greater strength than any man of them Her father often desired to give her in marriage but she would none of it She vowed she would never marry till she found a man who could vanquish her in every trial; him she would wed and none else And when her father saw how resolute she was he gave a formal consent in their fashion that she should marry whom she list and when she list The lady was so tall and muscular so stout and shapely withal that she was almost like a giantess She had distributed her challenges over all the kingdoms declaring that whosoever should come to try a fall with her it should be on these conditions viz that if she vanquished him she should win from him 100 horses and if he vanquished her he should win her to wife Hence many a noble youth had come to try his strength against her but she beat them all; and in this way she had won more than 10 000 horses The Travels of Marco Polo translated by Henry Yule Qaïdu Devisement du monde Marco Polo Manuscript Français 2810 fol 95v Хутулун дочь Хайду У ца я Кайду была дочь; звали ее по-тата ски Ангиа м а по-ф анцузски это значит светлая луна Была она очень сильна; не было в целом ца стве ни юноши ни витязя кто мог бы ее побо оть; побеждала она всех Отец хотел выдать ее замуж а она этого не желала и сказала что не выйдет замуж пока не сыщется такой витязь кто победил бы ее и много благо одных юношей из азных ст ан п иходили попытать счастье и делалось испытание вот как п иходил ца ь в главный покой дво ца со многими людьми мужчинами и женщинами а потом выходила на се едину покоя ца ская дочь аз яженная в богато асшитом сандальном платье п иходил и юноша в сандальном на яде; и было условлено коль юноша ее победит на землю повалит то возьмет он ее в жены а ко Поло http //www lib ru/INPROZ/POLO_M/mir txt Книга о азнооб азии ми а Пе евод И П инаева btv1b52000858n/f196 Maître de la Mazarine 1410 1412 PD-old Bibliotheque Nationale MS Fr 2810 People of the Mongol Empire Medieval miniatures of horses Hugging in art | ||||
