The Body Defensive Arms of Nomads in Noghaic-Kazakh Heroic Epos
Корпусное защитное вооружение кочевников в ногайлинско-казахских героических эпосах
Agatay O.M. Sabitov Z.M.
1 December 2022Cherkas Global University Press
Bylye Gody
2022#17Issue 41500 - 1512 pp.
The article describes the data from the Noghaic-Kazakh heroic epos containing information about various types of body armour of nomads of the Eurasia of the late Middle Ages and Modern Age. Previously, this material was not translated into Russian and was not an object of special scientific research. Based on a comprehensive analysis of folklore, artefacts and written sources, an attempt was made to identify the original names as well as the design features and design systems of the bodyarmor of the Turkic warriors in the western part of the Great Steppe in the Middle Ages and Modern Age. Based on the research of the collected, systematized and analyzed data, the main terms used in Noghaic-Kazakh heroic epos have been identified and attributed to denote the samples of defensive arms. Thus, it has been notably determined that in the Middle Ages and Modern Age, the nomadic warriors of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories used the armor kübe, the chain mail and the mail and plate armours kiräwgä, badänäh, and bäktär, the plates sewn armour beren, the armour plates chahār-āīneh, the quilted soft armour qatáū, armor torghout, etc. It has been determined that during the Middle Ages, the meaning of the term denoting one or another type of the armor could change. So, for example, the term kübe originally denoted chain mail, then lamellar armor. The analysis of the Kazakh term qatáū showed that it goes back to the Medieval Mongol χataγu (qatáū) dehel (khatangku dehel). The comparison of weapon descriptions in Noghaic-Kazakh heroic epos with authentic samples of defensive arms from archaeological monuments and written sources showed a high level of correlation between folklore and artefacts. The analysis of the collected data showed within the framework of a comprehensive analysis of sources of Noghaic-Kazakh epos can be applied in the study of the military-cultural heritage of the Turkic peoples of Kazakhstan and adjacent territories of the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age. Copyright
armors , chain mail , defensive arms , nomadic warriors
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Research Institute for Jochi Ulus Studies, Kazakhstan
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