<p>A distinguished English student of folk-lore has written: "Armenia offers a rich and hitherto almost untouched field to the folk-lorist, the difficulty of grappling with the language?the alphabet even of which was described by Byron as 'a very Waterloo of an alphabet'?having hitherto baffled European collectors."<br><br>So far as I can learn, the two volumes of Armenian folk-tales collected by Bishop Sirwantzdiants have hitherto been accessibl...