Ancestor of The Wanyan Clan
Because Hanpu was supposedly the sixth-generation ancestor of Wanyan Wugunai (1021-1074), historians postulate that Hanpu lived in the early tenth century, when the Jurchens still consisted of independent tribes. Because the Jurchens had no written records at the time, the story of Hanpu was first transmitted orally. According to the History of Jin (Jinshi 金史; compiled in the 1340s), Hanpu arrived from Goryeo at the age of sixty and settled among the Wanyan clan. To resolve an endless cycle of vendettas between two families, he managed to make both parties accept a new rule: from then on, the family of a killer would compensate the victim's family with a gift of horses, cattle, and money. Historian Herbert Franke has compared this law to the old Germanic practice of Wergeld. In recompense for putting an end to the feud, Hanpu was married to a sixty-year-old woman who then bore him one daughter and two sons. Hanpu and his descendants were then formally received into the Wanyan clan. The same story recounts that when Hanpu left Goryeo, his two brothers remained behind, one in Goryeo and one in the Balhae area.
Herbert Franke explains that this Jurchen "ancestral legend" probably indicates that the Wanyan clan absorbed immigrants from Goryeo and Balhae sometime in the tenth century. Frederick W. Mote, who called this account of the founding of the Wanyan clan a "tribal legend," claimed that Hanpu's two brothers (one who stayed in Goryeo and one in Bohai) might have represented "the tribe's memory of their ancestral links to these two peoples."
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