Agunda
Ossetian · mortal · classical nart · mortal
SHE ASKS FOR THE PIPE, NOT FOR THE PLAYER, and the story turns on his refusal. Her father is the same Saynag-Aldar who kills Khæmyts and is killed by Batraz — so the courtship tale and the blood-feud share a household.
Parentage
Domains
- courtship
- bride seeking
Relations
- wooed by: Atsamaz
- daughter of: Saynag-Aldar
Sources
- Reference treatment of Atsamaz and Agunda: the ancient Nart Saynag-Aldar lives in a castle on a hill and decides to find a husband for his daughter Agunda; Atsamaz is a shepherd who is a travelling companion of the famous bogatyr Soslan, and he secretly loves Agunda; in the Nartiada Atsamaz plays a pipe in order to win the heart of the unapproachable Agunda; before Soslan and Atsamaz leave on their journey Agunda hears the music of Atsamaz's pipe and follows its sound, and when they meet he tells her the music is for her, but when she asks him to give her the pipe as a symbol of his love he refuses, explaining that it is a present from the gods, and when she tells him this means he does not love her, Atsamaz breaks the pipe in anger and storms away.