Vol. 18 (2025): International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse
Mikheil Tsereteli’s Activities in Emigration

Several Variant Lines in Mikhako Tsereteli’s Edition of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin”

  • Lia Karichashvili
Lia Karichashvili
ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი; შოთა რუსთაველის სახელობის ქართული ლიტერატურის ინსტიტუტი
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.18.2025.10919

Published 2026-02-19

Keywords

  • Mikhako Tsereteli,
  • „The Knight in the Panther’s Skin“,
  • line,
  • variant

Abstract

The Rustvelological reflections of Mikhako Tsereteli continue to command the attention of re­sear­chers today.

In this paper I discuss several variant lines and substantiate the validity of those readings that Mikha­ko Tsereteli favored in his edition.

One such line is: “I sit nursing the love You planted” (201, 4).

Another variant line is: “Waking I thought of her, when I fell asleep (I thought of her) in my drow­siness” (1193)

The resolution of these lines once again attests to the editor’s profound knowledge of Rustaveli’s ar­tistic language, his textual sensibility, and the most delicate capacity for discerning nuances.