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German interest in folksongs began in the middle of the eighteenth century, stoked in no small part by the Europe-wide mania for Ossian.  Thomas Percy’s influential Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) was also much admired, and the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder, who had been sent a copy by Rudolf Erich Raspe (of Munchausen fame) […]

Vepkhist’qaosani, ‘The Knight in the Panther Skin’, is ‘the greatest classic of Georgian secular literature …  It is for Georgians what Dante’s Divina Commedia is for Italians’ (Rayfield, History of Georgian Literature, pp. 73, 81).  This is the first edition in French, although the translator insists: ‘Ce n’est donc point une traduction, c’est une imitation qui […]