Front matter
Marjory Scott Wardrop translation
(All rights reserved)
Grimm Library
No. 1
GEORGIAN FOLK TALES
‘I quite understand, my good friend,’ said I, ‘the contempt you bestow upon the nursery tales with which the Hajee and I have been entertaining each other; but, believe me, he who desires to be well acquainted with a people will not reject their popular stories or local superstitions. Depend upon it, that man is too far advanced into an artificial state of society who is a stranger to the effects which tales and stories like these have upon the feelings of a nation....’
Sir John Malcolm’s Sketches of Persia, ch. xvi.
Georgian Folk Tales
Translated by Marjory Wardrop
Published by David Nutt in the Strand, London 1894
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty
TO DR. EDWARD B. TYLOR AS A SLIGHT TOKEN OF ADMIRATION FOR HIS GREAT TALENTS THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED