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==== Ikkūne Mikayayya min Nattaxxawan's Jest ==== | ==== Ikkūne Mikayayya min Nattaxxawan's Jest ==== | ||
Ikkūne Nattaxxawan, the supreme leader of Salmon Speaker Country, was on his way to Prefect Annu's office to discuss the events of the Hara Incident. He and his entourage had to take a detour from the main road, which had been washed out by a typhoon. They encountered Sorvin, as the path from his farm intersected the narrow road Nattaxxawan's party had taken. Nattaxxawan | Ikkūne Nattaxxawan, the supreme leader of Salmon Speaker Country, was on his way to Prefect Annu's office to discuss the events of the Hara Incident. He and his entourage had to take a detour from the main road, which had been washed out by a typhoon. They encountered Sorvin, as the path from his farm intersected the narrow road Nattaxxawan's party had taken. Nattaxxawan and his entourage ultimately ignored Sorvin and continued on their way to Biktāt, the prefectural capital. | ||
While having dinner with Annu, he spoke of Sorvin's tenaciousness, which included a pile of letters awaiting him in his guest quarters. Again, recorded by Annu's nephew Taššir, more material regarding the Vadi lawsuit has been preserved in Minhast history, less for its impact on pre-Unification Minhay than for its satirical value. | |||
This jest by Nattaxxawan is among the more memorable: | This jest by Nattaxxawan is among the more memorable: | ||
{{Gloss | {{Gloss | ||
|phrase = | |phrase = Wahēki ambuntirtaħtemidde asuħmipsayalkimakkemunaft attiaħtimmahabu. | ||
| IPA = | | IPA = | ||
| morphemes = | | morphemes = wahēki ambun-tirtaħtem=de asum-hipsa-yalk-makkem-u=naft attiaħ-timmah-ab-u | ||
| gloss = | | gloss = behold road-2S.ACC+3P.NOM=ERG HAB-MITG-walk=NMZ be.burden.upon-3P.INAN.ACC+3P.INAN.NOM-IMPF-TRN | ||
| translation = I see you have a problem of lawlessness in some of your less travelled roads. A man, apparently suffering from a rabid dog bite, ambushed my party. Some of us nearly shot him full of arrows, and others nearly ran him through with their šuhapna. But we held fast and listened to this yapping fool tell us to do something about a dangerous bandit named Eró lurking just beyond the crossing at the brook. I imagine he wanted me to have him put to death. We ignored him, as we were very hungry and were already impatient with this delay. <br/><br/>Strange then it is when after we arrived here safely at Biktāt, I find a pile of letters waiting for me. Letters from a man named Sorvin pleading me to "put in a kind word to Prefect Annu" to have Eró "disposed of", and that the lands that Eró had stolen be returned back to him. Apparently this citizen of Dog Speaker Country thinks that the authority of one of his Prefect can be overriden by the word of a foreign Ikkūne. | | translation = I see you have a problem of lawlessness in some of your less travelled roads. A man, apparently suffering from a rabid dog bite, ambushed my party. Some of us nearly shot him full of arrows, and others nearly ran him through with their šuhapna. But we held fast and listened to this yapping fool tell us to do something about a dangerous bandit named Eró lurking just beyond the crossing at the brook. I imagine he wanted me to have him put to death. We ignored him, as we were very hungry and were already impatient with this delay. <br/><br/>Strange then it is when after we arrived here safely at Biktāt, I find a pile of letters waiting for me. Letters from a man named Sorvin pleading me to "put in a kind word to Prefect Annu" to have Eró "disposed of", and that the lands that Eró had stolen be returned back to him. Apparently this citizen of Dog Speaker Country thinks that the authority of one of his Prefect can be overriden by the word of a foreign Ikkūne. | ||
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