Saga From Armenia - The Princess Peri and the Rich Merchant: Popular Sagas from Caucasus, #3

By Jose Fernandes da Silva

Sagas are folkloric and fantastic-realistic epic narratives which speak of events related to life, customs, beliefs and desires of a certain people; in this case, the people of the Caucasian world, in a period referring to antiquity.

They are mostly heroic narratives, in which the heroes are both men and women, and that ethical factors such as courage, bravery, loyalty, honor, faith, are the main themes brought to light. The narratives published in this book are part of a series of 17 narratives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: José Fernandes da Silva
• Release date: Dec 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393243717

Jose Fernandes da Silva

José Fernandes da Silva, nascido em 17 de dezembro de 1935, no município de Patos de Minas, Estado de Minas Gerais, Fez curso de Mestrado em 1986, na Universidade de Estocolmo (Suécia), com a tese A CONSTRUÇÃO ARTÍSTICA EM SAGARANA: Uma Análise Estrutural Semiótica em João Guimarães Rosa; cursou Doutorado em 2002, pela Universidade Paulista de São José o Rio Preto, com a tese: A Semiótica do Texto Narrativo literário; foi professor de Literatura, Teoria Literária e Semiótica, na Universidade Católica de Goiás (hoje PUC-GOIÁS), durante 20 anos; e é atualmente professor aposentado, dedicado à tradução do sueco para o português e gravação de textos narrativos.

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Biography

José Fernandes da Silva, born December 17, 1935 in Patos de Minas, Minas Gerais, did a Master’s degree in 1986 at the University of Stockholm (Sweden), with a thesis on the Artistic Construction in Sagarana: A Structural and Semiotic Analysis  of João Guimarães Rosa. He attained a PhD in 2002, at the Paulist University of São José do Rio Preto, with the thesis: Semiotics in the Literary Narrative Text. He was Professor of Literature, Literary Theory and Semiotics at the  Catholic University of Goiás (now the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC-GOIÁS), for 20 years, and is now a retired teacher.

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Sagas are folkloric and fantastic-realistic epic narratives which speak of events related to life, customs, beliefs and desires of a certain people; in this case, the people of the Caucasian world, in a period referring to antiquity.

They are mostly heroic narratives, in which the heroes are both men and women, and that ethical factors such as courage, bravery, loyalty, honor, faith, are the main themes brought to light. The narratives published in this book are part of a series of 17 narratives.

Chapter 1

The Princess Dream

In the capital of the Armenian kingdom,

lived once a rich and valiant king.

He had no son;

but in return, 

God had gifted him

with such a beautiful daughter,

that would be hard to find in the world

another like her.

The king believed that,

over time,

he would marry his daughter

and make his son-in-law the heir to the throne.

When she was seventeen,

he proposed to her summon the most famous princes,

in order that she could choose between them

a bridegroom according to the propensities

of his heart.

But the Princess warned him

that