{"collection":"asia","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/asia/alp/index.htm","path":"asia/alp/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/asia/alp/index.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Asia\u00a0\n Myths/Legends\u00a0\n \n| | Armenian Legends and Poems by Zabelle C. Boyajian [1916] | \nContents\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n Start Reading\n This is a collection of translations of Armenian literature from\n the middle ages, interspersed with poetry from the 19th century.\n In addition, there are a number of episodes from the\n chronicles of Moses of Khorene, a fifth century Armenian historian.\n These recount legendary incidents of ancient Armenian history.\n The anthologist and translator of many of these poems, Zabelle Boyajian,\n also created the luminous illustrations.\n \n The book concludes with a long essay by Aram Raffi\n which contextualizes the long history of Armenian\n literature.\n This essay also details the long religious history of Armenia,\n starting with an extended discussion of the ancient Pagan deities.\n Armenia is in a region which is a cross-roads between Asia and Europe,\n and has more often than not been conquered by the\n dominant regional power of the day,\n starting with the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Macedonians,\n through the Ottomans and finally the Russians.\n \n Nevertheless, Armenia has managed to hold onto a unique cultural and\n linguistic identity.\n Armenians have produced a substantial national literature,\n particularly in those short windows of time while not under foreign domination.\n Unfortunately, not much of this has been translated into English.\n This anthology is one of the few sources we have in the public domain.\n So please enjoy this little sampler of Armenian literature.\n \nTitle Page\nPreface\nIntroduction\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nArmenia's Love To Shakespeare\nReproaches\nA Trial of Orthodoxy\nThe Exile's Song\nThe Apple Tree\nMy Heart is Turned Into a Wailing Child\nO Night, Be Long\nBlack Eyes\nYesternight I Walked Abroad\nVahagn, King of Armenia\nHuntsman, That on the Hills Above\nLiberty\nI Beheld My Love This Morning\nThe Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear\nIncense\nThe Little Lake\nSpring\nCradle Song\nAra and Semiramis\nLament Over the Heroes Fallen in the Battle of Avarair\nThe Song of the Stork\nYe Mountain Bluebells\nThe Sun Went Down\nBirthday Song\nMorning\nThe Founding of Van\nI Have a Word I Fain Would Say\nThe Song of the Partridge\nThe Lily of Shavarshan\nCradle Song\nThe Wind is Howling Through the Winter Night\nThe Armenian Poet's Prayer\nThe Chragan Palace\nThe Dream\nThe Sorrows of Armenia\nArtashes and Satenik\nMy Death\nThe Eagle's Love\nConcerning the Rose and the Nightingale\nThe Arrival of the Crusaders\nLike an Ocean is This World\nThe Rock\nThe Crane\nThe Hawk and the Dove\nArtavasd\nCharm Verses\nThe Tears of Araxes\nThe Eve of Ascension Day\n''Thy Voice is Sweet''\nChrist and Abgarus\nAraxes Came Devouringly\nThe Parrot's Song\nEarth and Sky\nO\u2019er the Mountains High He Went\nComplaints\nA Day After\nWithout Thee What Are Song and Dance to Me?\nThe Lake of Van\nSpring\nThe Fox\nThe Tale of Rosiphelee\nThe Song of the Vulture\nDance Song\nBallad\nNo Bird Can Reach the Mountain's Crest\nThe Nightingale of Avarair\nThou Art So Sweet\nThe Wandering Armenian to the Swallow\nThe Christ-Child\nThe Castle of Anoush\nHappiness\nConcerning Death\nLove One Another\nPasqua Armena\n''Io Vidi''\nArmenia: Its Epics, Folk-Songs, and Mediaeval Poetry\nIntroduction\nArmenian Paganism\nArmenian Epics\nMoses of Khorene\nAdoption of Christianity\nGolden Age of Armenian Literature\nMiddle Ages\nBagratuni Dynasty\nThe Crusades\nSilver Age of Armenian Literature\nEnd of Armenian Kingdom\nRenaissance\nEighteenth Century and onward\nCharacteristics of Armenian Poetry\nRussian Era\nAddenda and Corrigenda\nChronological Index to Authors\nIndex to First Lines","title":"Armenian Legends and Poems Index","type":"page"}