History, Archaeology, Ethnography
Every Legend has a precise historical basis. That’s why when investigating people’s ethnic history it also has a definite genetic touch.
In this article the Legends concerning the fight between the "jvar-khati" and "deus" in Khevsureti (mountainous part of Eastern Georgia) and the migration of the mountaineers from Shavsheti (Historical South-western Georgia, now forming a part of Turkey) are discussed. Filling it up with the written sources and analizing it critically, it becomes possible to resolve and reconstruct some problems of Georgians ethnic history (at least partially).
Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnography
of the Georgian Academy of Sciences