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Preface to the Second Scroll東國君王開國年代 幷序
Jewang Ungi (Rhymed Chronicle of Emperors and Kings) Lower Book From Pangu to the Jurchen Jin, from Dangun to Goryeo — an epic that weaves the two histories, of China and of the East, into verse. Declaring that there is a world apart in Liaodong, it sets the history of Korea beside that of China, and it is one of the first histories to sing of Dangun as the founding ancestor of every state on the Korean peninsula. The author's own one hundred and ninety-seven interlinear notes are carried with it.
1Title of the second scroll
帝王韻紀卷下.
The Jewang ungi, second scroll.
2Composed by Yi Seunghyu
頭陀山居士, 臣李承休, 製進.
Composed and presented by your subject Yi Seunghyu, a lay Buddhist of Dutasan.
3The founding dates of the rulers of the Eastern Country
東國君王開國年代 幷序.
The founding dates of the rulers of the Eastern Country, with a preface.
4One thousand four hundred and sixty words in all
謹據國史, 旁採各本紀與夫殊異傳所載, 㕘諸堯舜已來經傳子史, 去浮辭, 取正理, 張其事而詠之, 以明興亡年代, 凡一千四百六十言.
With care I have relied on the Guksa, and alongside it gathered what is set down in the several basic annals and in the Suijeon, and weighed these against the classics and the writings of the masters and the histories from Yao and Shun onward. I have thrown out floating words and taken up right reason, and have laid these matters out and sung them, and in making plain the dates of rise and fall they come to one thousand four hundred and sixty words in all.