According to the Samguk sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms), exchanges between the kingdoms of Koguryŏ and Silla commenced with military engagements in the middle of the third century. The broader interregional circumstances of the time, evidenced by both historical and archaeological data, make such an early encounter between these two polities highly unlikely. In this paper I examine data from historical and archaeological contexts to identify contradictions in accounts of the mid-third-century circumstances of the Korean peninsula, demonstrating the anomalous nature of the early depictions of Koguryŏ-Silla relations found in the Samguk sagi. Further, I will discuss how the issue at hand points to a much more pervasive problem with the early chronology of the Silla records in the Samguk sagi, demanding a considerable degree of caution for scholars who use that resource for the study of the history of the Korean peninsula. Lastly, I will discuss briefly how current trends in Korean academia (involving forces that are not limited to the academic realm) pose a challenge for an open and critical evaluation of the chronology of the Samguk sagi.

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Samguk sagi中描述的早期高句丽新罗关系的一些问题

根据 Samguk sagi（三国史），高句丽王国和新罗王国之间的交流始于 3 世纪中叶的军事交战。历史和考古数据都证明了当时更广泛的区域间环境，这使得这两个政体之间的这种早期相遇极不可能。在这篇论文中，我检查了来自历史和考古背景的数据，以找出对 3 世纪中叶朝鲜半岛情况的描述中的矛盾，证明了在 Samguk sagi 中发现的高句丽-新罗关系的早期描述的异常性质。此外，我将讨论手头的问题如何指向 Samguk sagi 中新罗记录的早期年表中一个更为普遍的问题，要求使用该资源研究朝鲜半岛历史的学者相当谨慎。最后，我将简要讨论韩国学术界的当前趋势（涉及不限于学术领域的力量）如何对《三国传奇》年表的开放和批判性评估构成挑战。