SAGAS FROM THE FAR EAST; Or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales. With Historical Preface and Explanatory Notes. By the Author of "Patrañas," "Household Stories from the Land of Hofer," &c. London: Griffith and Farran, Successors to Newbery and Harris, Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard. MDCCCLXXIII. "It singularly happens that the Sagas of the ancient Indians are preserved to us in much fuller measure than their authentic history, which is scanty enough. Moreover to them their Sagas served as actual statements of facts, so that we can neither form a right conception of their mind, nor arrive at any knowledge of their history, without studying their Sagas." Lassen, "Pref. to Ind. Alterthum…
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