Tracing the source of the Sparrow-Hawk Castle legend from John Mandeville's Travels | Imagologiya i komparativistika – Imagology and Comparative Studies. 2025. № 24. DOI: 10.17223/24099554/24/1

Tracing the source of the Sparrow-Hawk Castle legend from John Mandeville's Travels

The plot of the Sparrow Hawk Castle, the fairy and the cursed Armenian king was first used by John Mandeville in his Travels, which became a source for Johann Schiltberger's The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger: a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427, Jean of Arras's chivalric novel Melusine, and Couldrette's The Romans of Partenay, Or of Lusignen: Otherwise Known as the Tale of Melusine. This article aims to identify the historical location of the castle-fortress and to uncover the source of its legend.

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John Mandeville, Wilbrand of Oldenburg, travelogue, sparrow-hawk's castle, legend, source, location of the castle

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Bejanyan Kristine H.	Manook Abeghyan Institute ofLiterature of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia	bejanyan@litinst.sci.am
Karagyozyan Gohar L.	Manook Abeghyan Institute ofLiterature of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia	gkaragyozian@gmail.com

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