ABSTRACT
IN THE autumn of 857 the Silla King, Muns ng, was laid up with a serious illness feeling, as he put it, as if he were treading on thin ice at the edge of a deep lake, and, having no son, he appointed his uncle, the sangdaedung, as regent. He died a few days later and the uncle became King H nan. Within three years he also died, without a male heir, but he left two daughters, of whom the elder was married to a 15-year-old first cousin who became King Ky ngmun. He had studied in China and was considered to be able and wise.
