1 Rapid expansion from northern Korea to the Yangtze The Juchên in the past had been only a small league of Tungus tribes, whose name is preserved in that of the present Tungus tribe of the Jurchen, which came under the domination of the Kitan after the collapse of the state of Po-hai in northern Korea.

He then went still farther south, and pitched his tent on a mountain having Bethel on the west and Hai on the east, and there he built an altar unto the Lord.

Poi si stracciò la vesta con gran furia, E disse: Io tornerò ne la battaglia, Poi che tu m' hai per traditore scorto: Io non son traditor, se Dio mi vaglia: Non mi vedrai più oggi se non morto.