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How does a people carry its homeland through stories, songs, love and grief?
In Armenian Legends and Poems, Zabelle C. Boyajian gathers old Armenian tales and verse into an invitation to know a culture. The legends draw on traditions preserved by medieval chroniclers. Haik and Ara the Beautiful stand among the figures through whom these stories explore beginnings, homeland and a people's sense of who they are.
The poems turn from the broad sweep of national legend to the feelings of a single heart. Love, grief, faith and homeland give these voices their subjects. Published in 1916, amid great Armenian suffering, the anthology serves as an act of memory: a way to introduce readers to stories and poetry that hold a culture close.
What you’ll discover
- Stories of beginnings Meet Haik and Ara the Beautiful in legends that give a people heroes and a homeland.
- A landscape of belonging Explore founding stories rooted in the Armenian highlands around Mount Ararat.
- From legend to lyric Follow the shift from a nation's grand stories to the intimate concerns of individual poets.
- Love, grief and faith Find verses that bring these enduring feelings into the company of homeland and memory.
- Words to read aloud Take the legends slowly and hear the spoken and sung roots of these pages.
Who will love it
For readers who love Armenian history, myth and poetry, and anyone who enjoys traditional tales gathered in one small volume. Heroes, founding legends and poems of love, grief, faith and homeland offer a warm introduction to Armenian culture.
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- The legends tell how a people began
- The poems turn from myth to feeling
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Armenian Legends and Poems
by Zabelle C. Boyajian (compiler)
Around Mount Ararat, founding legends and poets' voices reveal how a people keeps its identity alive.
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Armenian Legends and Poems is an anthology gathered by Zabelle C. Boyajian and published in 1916.
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A compiler who wanted Armenia understood
Zabelle C. Boyajian was an Armenian writer and artist who worked in England in the early twentieth century. She gathered this book so that English readers could meet Armenian stories and songs in their own right, not only as news of a people in danger. She also made the illustrations that went with the book.
The book belongs to a wave of efforts in those years to show the world that Armenia had a long literature of its own. Armenians had a written language since the early fifth century, and a body of chronicle, song and folk memory far older than that. A volume like this one picks from that wealth and offers a doorway rather than a full survey.
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What is Armenian Legends and Poems about?
It is an anthology of traditional Armenian legends and poems by Armenian poets, gathered to introduce English readers to the stories, values and feelings of the Armenian people, from their mythic beginnings to the songs of later poets.
Who compiled Armenian Legends and Poems?
Zabelle C. Boyajian, an Armenian writer and artist living in England, compiled it. It was published in 1916, and the illustrations are by her own hand.
Are the Armenian legends true stories?
They are traditional tales that mix memory and wonder. Some echo figures and events known from medieval Armenian chronicles, but they are told as legend, so they should be read as national myth rather than strict history.
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