Sentence Correction

Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.
(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only
(B) In 1905, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed
(C) In 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only
(D) Having traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed
(E) Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming themselves only

Answer is C, but does not "armed only" modifiy back roads of Hungary and change the original meaning mistakenly?

Could you elaborate? Thns

only armed is wrong usage eliminate B,D.
arming themselves only - wrong usage. Eliminate E.

Between A and C.

A extra usage of and and hence a they to refer to BB and ZK.

C there must be a comma operator after Hungary,thereby making the meaning clear.

Thus C is better and hence an OA.

Ozlemg wrote:Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity.
(A) Traveling the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were armed only
(B) In 1905, Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, traveling the back roads of Hungary, began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, and they were only armed
(C) In 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only
(D) Having traveled the back roads of Hungary, in 1905 Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology; they were only armed
(E) Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly, in 1905 began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary, arming themselves only

Answer is C, but does not "armed only" modifiy back roads of Hungary and change the original meaning mistakenly?

Could you elaborate? Thns

"only armed" changes the meaning so eliminate B,D.
"arming themselves" usage is incorrect eliminate E.
A is wordy so out.
C seems to be perfect,i would say no "comma" is required after Hungary as stated by Amit2k9.If a comma is inserted then "armed only" will be modified incorrectly.Expert please comment!!