DÜSTÛRNÂME-İ ENVERÎ İLE DEDE KORKUT TÜRKİSTAN/TÜRKMEN SAHRA/GÜNBET YAZMASINDA YER ALAN EJDER MOTİFİNİN İŞLEVİ ÜZERİNE

Düstûrnâme-i Enverî is one of the oldest history books of the Ottoman period, consisting of 118 pages written during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmed in the second half of the 15th century (1465). Düstûrnâme, which was written in Old Anatolian Turkish in the form of masnavi, consists of 3730 couplets. In the part of the work, which is about Ottoman history, there is a text about the struggle of Shah Melik and his sons Gündüz and Gök Alp with the dragon. In the text, the situations experienced by the beys who came out to take the dragon's head and the events that followed are described. Dede Korkut Turkestan/Turkmen Sahara/Günbet Manuscript, is a work consisting of 31 leaves, which is said to have been written in the 17th-18th century. The manuscript contains the narrative about Salur Kazan killing the dragon. In this study, the parts about the fight against the dragon in these texts, which show the Oghuz-name feature, were examined in terms of their functions. The effects of the oral creativity environment on the written creativity environment were evaluated in terms of texts. The functions of the dragon motif in the texts were discussed and it was concluded that the dragon motif, regardless of its source or origin, preserves its vitality in the public imagination and is included in these texts as a result of its wide area of influence.