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It is interesting that the practice of exogamy was so deeply ingrained with the Mongols that the Tayichiud would consider a match with the Tartars, their greatest enemies (Vladimirtsov, Le regime social pp. 58–59). Another version of the ambush is that it was not the intended bridegroom and family who betrayed him, but Tartar mercenaries (juyin) employed as gendarmes by the Jin who set the ambuscade (Rachewiltz, Commentary pp. 300–301).

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Grousset, Empire pp. 194, 200.

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Erdmann, Temudschin (1862) pp.

194–230.

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Vladimirtsov, Le regime social pp. 89–92.

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d’Ohsson, Histoire i p. 33.

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RT i pp. 130–131.

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Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan p. 12; Barfield, Perilous Frontier p. 184.

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RT i p. 132; SHC pp. 11–13.

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Rachewiltz, Commentary p. 320.

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Gumilev, Imaginary Kingdom p. 140.

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Vladimirtsov; Life of Genghis p. 12; Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan pp. 15–16; Olbricht 8i Pinks, Meng-tapei-lup.

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SHO pp. 127–128; SHR pp. 74–75; Togan, Flexibility pp. 68–69.

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SHO pp. 127–128; SHR pp. 74–75; Togan, Flexibility pp. 69–70.

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The Tanguts had an unfortunate habit of supporting all the losers on the steppes (Khazanov, Nomads pp. 234–236).

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Togan, Flexibility pp. 70–72.

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K. Uray-Kohalmi, ‘Siberische Parallelen zur Ethnographie der geheimen Geschichte der Mongolen,’ in Ligeti, Mongolian Studies pp.

247–264 (at pp. 262–263).

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L. V Clark, ‘The Theme of Revenge in the Secret History of the Mongols,’ in Clark & Draghi, Aspects of Altaic Civilization рр. 33–57; Clark, ‘From the Legendary Cycle of Cinggis-gayan: The Story of an Encounter with 300 Yayichiud from the Allan Tobci,’ Mongolian Studies 5 (1979) рр. 5–39 (at pp. 37–38).

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RT i p. 134; SHC pp. 11–13.

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Rachewiltz says that the name of this earlier wife ‘cannot be determined despite many scholarly efforts’ (Rachewiltz, Commentary p.

313). Ratchnevsky, however, (Genghis Khan pp. 15–16, 224) is adamant that her name was Suchigu or Suchikel, sometimes referred to as Ko’agchin.

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For the Ongirrad subclan as Hoelun’s home see Pelliot & Hambis, Campagnes pp. 402–409; Vladimirtsov Le regime social pp. 58–59. The Buriyat have generated a considerable literature. See Lattimore, Mongols of Manchuria p. 61; Atwood, Encyclopedia p.