Week 5 Reading Notes: Fate, Part B

A Georgian dagger from 1800

Title: Fate

Publication: 1894

Author: Unknown

Translator: Marjory Wardrop (November 11, 1869—December 7, 1909)

Marjory Wardrop
Notes:
“Fate” was originally taken from a Georgian folklore collection titled “Khalkhuri Zghaprebi” (Georgian for “folk tales”), though the author remains unknown. Marjory Scott Wardrop was an English scholar and translator of Georgian literature who compiled many stories into “Georgian Folk Tales,” which was published in London in 1894.

Characters:
King
Prince
Angel
Man at the palace
Weaver
Weaver’s wife
Weaver’s daughter
Places:
Palace of the King
Palace of Fate
Woods
Palace in the woods

Events:
A king had an only son who everyone admired
The prince goes to seek out his fate
An angel directs him to the palace of fate
A man directs the prince to his fate
The prince learns he will marry a weaver’s daughter who is ill
The prince is determined to change his fate
The prince finds shelter in a house in the woods
The host is a weaver who reveals that his daughter is ill
The prince goes into the daughter’s room that night and stabs her
The prince returns home
Sometime later, the prince goes hunting and sees a pretty maiden 
The prince and the maiden marry
The maiden reveals that she was stabbed and miraculously cured
The prince shares his side of the story

References:
https://www.academia.edu/11460986/About_Georgian_Fairytales

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