The Oral Tradition
of the Western Armenians.
The Armenian Genocide - 1915

In the course of a number of years, the following folklore collections have been written down word by word, fragment by fragment and published.

I wish to express my deep gratitude to those Western Armenian narrators, who, with their already fading dialects have communicated me and saved from a total loss the remains of the spiritual culture of this part of the Armenian people, so I offer you what is yours, Armenian people.