Adyukh

Adyukh is associated with a stone tower above the Indzhich, a river of the northern Caucasian foothills. The surviving tower formed part of a fortified site and is linked by tradition to the heroine Adiyukh of the Nart tales. In the story she guides her husband's return across the river with the light of her hands, until a quarrel brings the passage to a fatal end. The tale joins the tower and its river landscape to the region's oral heritage.