The minstrel said: “All right with me.”  The sparrow gave the minstrel the bride and the minstrel gave the sparrow a song.  And the sparrow took the useless song and flew away, singing.

Erica Friedl Loeffler is an associate professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo, Michigan.  Her Ph.D. is from the University of Mainz, West Germany.  She is completing a book on Iranian folk culture and mythology.