[Tlhingan-hol] mIl'oD veDDIr SuvwI': 'ay' cha' - 11. yIvoq 'ach yI'ol

Robyn Stewart robyn at flyingstart.ca
Tue Aug 21 16:34:54 PDT 2012


At 09:57 '?????' 8/21/2012, you wrote:
>>jIH:
>> > [2] Though in the original Tinatin is the monarch of Arabia (the 
>> Georgian word is /mepe/ "king"),
>> > voDleH/ta' seems a little too much, since the story involves 
>> several rulers of various Sepmey. So
>> > tIna'tIn is the joH'a', and the petty lords she rules over, I'm 
>> calling jawpu' (I know joH and jaw are
>> > synonyms, but making them distinct makes the terminology a 
>> little less confusing).
>>
>>Qov:
>> > I'm totally happy with her as voDleH. There's no higher authority, right?
>>
>>lugh. choH Dachupbogh vIlajqangbej.

The historical Queen Tamar seems to have been styled the King of 
Kings, so if anything voDleH is underdoing it. The closest I got to 
fulfilling Rule 34 on Rustaveli was a Russian play purportedly about 
Queen Tamar's first wedding night, but I can't find the text online 
and am too lazy to go to the library.

- Qov 




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