While the world rages at Disney’s live action retelling of the tale of Chinese warrior princess Mulan, the filmmaker’s focus should perhaps have been aimed on another female fighter entirely.
Rather than folk fable, Mongolian warrior princess Khutulun was quite real and had the body count and fearsome reputation to prove it.
She was the daughter of Kaidu Khan and great-great-granddaughter of Genghis, a cousin of Kublai Khan who would found China’s Yuan dynasty.
Born around 1260 and raised with her 14 brothers, Khutulun excelled at horse riding, archery and wrestling, with the latter arguably the source of her reputation.
This year was no different, though like other sports events around the world the national Nadaam, which began when Genghis Khan founded Mongolia in 1206, went on behind closed doors, showing its importance to the country.
