A feud story that begins when a young man from Nyêrib steals in Horsig and is killed, then moves through threats, battle, and eventual reconciliation between Xalef Agha and Avdulah Agha.
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violence; death
Xalef Agha; Avdulah Agha; Mela Ahmed/Qafon; Huseyin; Hayder Agha; Sele.
This narrative connects local conflict memory along the Sivan/Servi-Palu line with the Nyêrib/Hani line. Horsig is very probably the place listed as Horsik among Sivan villages, today's Saklıca. Xalef Agha is warned in the text that he already fought in Hyêni, which places this story after the Nyêrib-Hyêni feud; a reasonable working date range is roughly 1820-1853.
The identifications Sivan/Servi, Horsig/Horsik/Saklıca, and Nyêrib/Nerib/Kuyular are externally supported. Şelê fits better with the Şelli/Turalı villages on the Hani side, and Kiepert's map also shows a Schel-like name northeast of Hani near Gjaurköi. For Kelan the strongest current candidate is Kelahsı/Kelaxsi in Sivan village lists, today's Doğanlı; Tawricyê remains uncertain. The German reader has been realigned with the Zazaki units. Lerch explicitly leaves the first message about Hyeni unclear; Xalef's next 'I fought with Nerib' also carries a question mark in German. 'Children, we go to battle' versus 'we fight with children', and tabure besta ('cartridges' in the old prose translations), remain unresolved. This story is on printed German pages 65-71 (local PDF pages 109-115); 109-115 is not its printed pagination.
Lerch, Peter Ivanovich. Izsledovaniia ob iranskikh kurdakh i ikh predkakh, severnykh khaldeiakh. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1856. Story "Nepriiiazn mezhdu Neribom i Sivanom," printed pp. 103-108.
Pages: Russian RGO viewer images 117-122; printed pp. 103-108.
Primary scan witness for Lerch’s Zazaki transcription and Russian free translation.
Lerch, Peter. Forschungen über die Kurden und die iranischen Nordchaldäer. Abth. 1. St. Petersburg: Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1857. Story "Die Feindseligkeiten zwischen Nerib und Sivän," pp. 65-71.
Pages: Internet Archive scan pages n108-n114; printed pp. 65-71.
Used for the German free translation and as a second scan witness for the Zazaki transcription.
Aslanoğulları, Mehmet. Lerch’in Zazaki Derlemelerinin Çevrimyazımı ve Türlerine Göre Sözcüklerin Tahlili. Master’s thesis, Bingöl Üniversitesi, 2014.
Pages: PDF pp. 50-55; thesis printed pp. 43-48; story heading "Qewğê Nêrib û Siwonı."
Secondary transcription witness used during alignment and review. The transcription text is cited here but is not reproduced in the Interlinear view.