Published for the first time. The original manuscript is preserved at HMA, Er. Lalayan Fund, 93—18, n-47-18, FAVI: 7567—7638. Written by Er. Lalayan. The collector of folk tales left the following information about the teller: “Told on July 24, 1915, in the village of Sanahin, by the same villager Adam Veranyan, an illiterate old man”.