Yurt wagon or Ger tereg (Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠷ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ) is a traditional mobile dwelling of the Mongolic people, in which a yurt is placed on a large cart usually pulled by oxen.
This type of habitat was mainly used by the Mongol Khans, at least between the 13th and 16th centuries.[1]
William of Rubruck (1215-1295) describes them in his travelogues in the Mongol Empire. He describes a meeting in a yurt with Möngke and his wife where they get drunk, during an evening in the presence of Nestorian priests and the woman returns to the imperial yurt, on the cart: "At last the lady, being drunk like the others, returned in her cart to her home".[2]
References edit
- ^ Х.Барилга Эм Эн. "Монголын орон сууцны архитектур" (in Mongolian). news.barilga.mn.
- ^ Guill. de Rubruquis envoyé de Saint Louis et Marco Polo, marchand vénitien (1888). Deux voyages en Asie au XIIIe siècle. pp. 100–101.