The Caucasus shelf gathers the public texts, source dossiers, and support pages currently held under this tradition room. Use this page as a doorway into the shelf rather than as a complete history of the tradition.

Main Doorways

• Ossetian Folk Tales holds 22 public texts or support pages. Start with Birds, Beasts, and People Seek the Foundation of True Religion, Do Not Speak Without Considering God's Will, How Three Brothers Found Their Stolen Horses.
• Ossetian Nart Tales holds 6 public texts or support pages. Start with How Nart Batradz Died, Khatag Barag, The Boy Born to Nart Satana by the Black Nogai.

Kartvelian Folk-Tale Doorway

• Introduction to Kartvelian Literary Traditions separates Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan and explains the present shelf's limits.
• Georgian Folk Tales preserves Wardrop's complete English anthology: sixteen Georgian-source tales, eight Mingrelian tales, twenty-eight Mingrelian proverbs, and fourteen Gurian tales.
• Read Part II as a distinct Mingrelian room and Part III as a Gurian regional selection. The work contains no Georgian or Mingrelian source text, and it does not yet provide Laz or Svan holdings.

Suggested Use

Begin with the introduction if one is present, then move into the rooms or individual texts listed above. For technical terms, names, and recurring concepts, use the local glossary on this shelf together with the central Good Works Glossary.