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Yugwi流鬼

Xin Tang Shu Dongyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern Yi in the New Book of Tang) 新唐書 東夷傳 · Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi · 1060 (Northern Song, 5th year of the Jiayou era) · 3 passages · 308 Chinese characters · reading time 1.2 min

Xin Tang Shu Dongyi Zhuan (Accounts of the Eastern Yi in the New Book of Tang) Complete in one volume The accounts of the Eastern Yi, written afresh a hundred years after the Jiu Tang Shu. Taizong's three plans and the whole course of the fighting at Ansi are told more vividly here; the account of Silla carries bone rank and the hwabaek, and sets after the tale of Jang Bogo and Jeongnyeon an appraisal that asks, "Who says there are no men among the Eastern Yi?" The account of Japan is the first to set down the line of the tennō in full.

1The country of Yugwi

流鬼去京師萬五千里,直黑水靺鞨東北,少海之北,三面皆阻海,其北莫知所窮。人依嶼散居,多沮澤,有魚鹽之利。地蚤寒,多霜雪,以木廣六寸、長七尺系其上,以踐冰,逐走獸。土多狗,以皮爲裘。俗被發。粟似莠而小,無蔬蓏它穀。勝兵萬人。南與莫曳靺鞨鄰,東南航海十五日行,乃至。貞觀十四年,其王遣子可也余莫貂皮更三譯來朝。授騎都尉,遣之。

Yugwi (流鬼) is fifteen thousand li from the capital. It lies straight to the north-east of the Heuksu Malgal, north of the Sohae (少海). On three sides it is closed in by the sea, and no one knows how far its north reaches. The people live scattered, keeping to the islands. There are many marshes, and they have the profit of fish and salt. The land turns cold early and has much frost and snow. They tie to their feet pieces of wood six inches wide and seven feet long, and on these they tread the ice and chase running beasts. The land has many dogs, and they make fur coats from the hides. Their custom is to wear the hair loose. Their millet is like foxtail grass but smaller, and they have no vegetables and no other grain. Their able soldiers are ten thousand. To the south they border the Mangye Malgal; one goes fifteen days by sea to the south-east, and then arrives. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan their king sent his son Gayayeomak with sable furs, passing through three interpreters, to come to court. He was given the office of Commandant of Cavalry and sent back.

2Tamna

龍朔初,有儋羅者,其王儒李都羅遣使入朝,國居新羅武州南島上,俗樸陋,衣大豕皮,夏居革屋,冬窟室。地生五穀,耕不知用牛,以鐵齒杷土。初附百濟。麟德中,酋長來朝,從帝至太山。後附新羅。

At the beginning of Longshuo there was a country called Tamna (儋羅), and its king Yuridora sent an envoy to come to court. The country lies on an island south of Muju in Silla. Their customs are plain and rough. They wear coats of large pig hide. In summer they live in houses of hide, in winter in pit dwellings. The land produces the five grains, but they do not know how to use oxen in plowing, and they work the soil with iron-toothed rakes. At first they attached themselves to Baekje. In the Linde period their chieftain came to court and followed the emperor to Mount Tai. Later they attached themselves to Silla.

Interlinear notes 1

儋羅

The source text has 儋羅, which the Korean reads as Damna. The island has long been known as Tamna, and that familiar form is kept here. ― translator

3Dalmallu and Dalgu

開元十一年,又有達末婁、達妒二部首領朝貢。達末婁自言北扶餘之裔,高麗滅其國,遺人度那河,因居之,或曰他漏河,東北流入黑水。達姤,室韋種也,在那河陰,凍末河之東,西接黃頭室韋,東北距達末婁云。

In the eleventh year of Kaiyuan the chiefs of two divisions, the Dalmallu and the Dalgu, also brought tribute. The Dalmallu say of themselves that they are the descendants of Buk Buyeo, and that when Goryeo destroyed their country the people who were left crossed the Naha and settled there. The Naha is also called the Taruha; it flows north-east and enters the Heuksu. The Dalgu are a branch of the Silwi. They are said to lie on the south side of the Naha and east of the Dongmalha, touching the Hwangdu Silwi on the west and reaching the Dalmallu on the north-east.