So I saw, in the army bound by oaths of loyalty to Tengir there was a warrior of exceptional fame and strength. Having won many battles, he abounded in riches and owned a big house on a parcel of fertile land, and further was blessed by Heaven with many sons and daughters. His sons became famous for their martial vigor that their father gave them, while his daughters became famous for their refined beauty that their mother, the warrior's wife, gave them. But he had one daughter who became doubly famous for her double inheritance, for she was warlike like her father and good-looking like her mother. Her name was Red-Moon, for the moon glowed red on the night she was born. Later on, her skin become ruddy from being in the sun all the time, and her parents decided the name fit her well after all. Her house was naturally the gathering-place of uncountable suitors. But being stronger than other girls, she was extremely prideful and refused to marry any man who could not best her at all three martial contests of fencing, archery and wrestling.
But of all the suitors who vied for her hand, the only two who ever came close were the twin sons of Tengir, Thousand-Horse and Eternal-One. And since they were sons of Tengir, the King of the land, Red-Moon's father thought that it would not be a dishonor for her to go to either of those two, either as the primary wife of Thousand-Horse or as the secondary wife of Eternal-One, who by that time had already married Lingering-Summer. And she for her part thought both of them handsome and honorable lords, and would be satisfied to be the wife of either of them. But she maintained that whoever was to become her husband had to pass her test, which no suitor had ever done up to then.