I’m pleased to have been introduced on this trip to the great Georgian epic poem by Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, which I bought yesterday at a street market in Tbilisi in English and French translation. (Here is an online prose translation by Marjory Scott Wardrop. The English translation that I bought is in hexameter verse and was translated by Venera Urushadze. It came out after Wardrop’s prose translation.)
I’ve read or reread a number of such epics in recent years, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the Mabinogian, Beowulf, the Niebelungenlied, Heimskringla and Gylfaginning, the Kalevala, and so on, and I’m greatly looking forward to The Knight in the Panther’s Skin.