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Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea

Yonsei University Press

A thirteenth century Korean compilation by the Buddhist monk Iryeon, gathering myth, legend and Buddhist history otherwise absent from the more formal court chronicle Samguk Sagi, including the founding legend of Dangun and the kingdom of Gojoseon, in the Ha and Mintz English translation.

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
Reliability tier 1: a scholarly English translation of the primary thirteenth century compilation, published by a university press, the standard route by which the Dangun legend reaches non-Korean-reading readers.
Notes
Cited for Iryeon's account of Hwanung's descent to Taebaeksan, the bear that became a woman by enduring the ordeal the tiger abandoned, and her son Dangun's founding of Gojoseon, dated in the text to the fiftieth year of the legendary Chinese emperor Yao.
Citation
Author
Iryeon, compiler, translated by Tae-Hung Ha and Grafton K. Mintz
Publisher
Yonsei University Press
Publication Year
1972
Source Type
critical translation
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Korean, Languages

This source names Korean directly: "A thirteenth century Korean compilation by the Buddhist monk Iryeon, gathering myth, legend and Buddhist history otherwise absent from the more formal court chronicle Samguk Sagi, including the..."

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Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)

This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 25 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Figures, 14 claims: 12 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
  • Myths & Sacred Narratives, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.

Well-attested

25

Figures

Dangun

Myths & Sacred Narratives

Dangun and the Founding of Gojoseon

Sources

Samguk Yusa: Legends and History of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea

Holds

3

Figures

Dangun

Myths & Sacred Narratives

Dangun and the Founding of Gojoseon

General References

2

Figures

Dangun

Myths & Sacred Narratives

Dangun and the Founding of Gojoseon
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