Published for the first time. The manuscript is kept in the FA; see A. Karapetyan’s fund, the collection “Armenian Folklore of Gugark”. Written by the folklorist A. Karapetyan in Debet, Alaverdi region, on July 7, 1966. Narrated by Saribek Matinyan, born in 1904, who had elementary education. According to the folklorist, S. Matinyan had heard the tale in the village when he was 20 years old.