The King's Son

Marjory Scott Wardrop was an English scholar, translated and published Georgian Folk Tales, The Hermit by Ilia Chavchavadze, The Life of St. Nino and The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli. She began her study of Georgia by the age of twenty and became eventually a master a total of seven languages, the others being French, German, Italian, Russian and Romanian.

“The King's Son” is a Georgian fairytale about one king, who has a son, and sends him out to be nursed by a smith's wife. But this crafty woman puts the king's child in a common cradle, and her own son in the gorgeous royal cradle…

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