History of the Armenians

...traveling with feet that leave no path, flying over the surface of the sea and across the swelling, heaped-up waves of the waters. There, the angry waves pile up like mountains and then sink low, one after another, just as the heart-stirring narrator says in the prophetic song of David: original: "dawt'ean ergoyn." This refers to the Psalms of King David, specifically echoing Psalm 107:26: "They mounted up to the heavens, they went down to the depths." they rise up mountain-high and descend plain-low.

When at last they have survived the tossing billows, they hasten toward their respective provinces. To their close friends and loved ones, they tell this tale: the story of the hardships they endured upon their journey, and the constant rising and falling of the drifting currents. They had pledged their very lives for the sake of profitable gain, risking death in their struggle for the victory of increasing their trade Trade: In this context, the "trade" or "merchandise" is likely a metaphor for the valuable historical knowledge or spiritual truth the author has gathered through great effort..

For even though they witnessed the bitter violence of the wind-lashed waves—surging and swaying in shifting colors original: "yerp'n erp'n derangown." A poetic description of the many-hued, iridescent, or changing colors of the sea's surface during a storm. upon the tossing surface, heaped high and ever-changing in their foam, following one after another in succession...