MARJORIE WARDROP AND THE GEORGIAN VERSION OF THE SVAN FAIRY TALE ("AMIRAN") RECORDED IN THE VILLAGE OF USHGUL

Abstract

The contribution of the Wardrop brothers and sisters from Scotland has always been, is and will always be appreciated. Marjorie Wardrop was the English translator of The Woodburner, but at the same time, she was much more of a writer than a writer. Lod translator. Until today, the manuscripts of Marjory Scott Wardrop, in which the Svan language and Svaneti are not published, have not been published. Ethno-linguist-folkloric materials are produced, with different types of Kartl-Ka-khu-ri, Gu-ru Georgian Folk Tales, Translated and Betold by Marjory Wardrop, London, 1894, but published in London in 1911 Preface to the work of the author John Oliver Wardrop of the "Englisch-Svanetian Dictionary" In the end he said: "The late Miss Marjory Wardrop left in manuscript an English translation of a collection of Svanetian folk-tales which may be published shortly". Unfortunately, the English version of the fairy tale was not even printed at that time. And not after that - neither in Britain nor in Hungary. For example, in the Bodleian Bible of the University of Oxford (Wardr. 9.2) To this day, there is "Sva-nuri zhap-rebi, collected by Ta-vi-sufa-li Svani, Ku-ta-i-si, 1893".
The article discusses Marjory Wardrop's English translation of the Swan tales and related issues.