Talk:List of world folk-epics

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Is the Aeneid really considered an folk-epic? It was written, very deliberately, by a single author.

Well, most of these are, really. What bothers me more is that novels, sagas, operas, and a lot of other stuff has been lumped together as "epic". Why not include comic books, movies, and television shows? An epic is supposed to be a poem -- to be reluctant to call a grand prose work an "epic" is not to denigrate it, but simply to recognize that it is in a different genre. Perhaps there should be a section for "prose epics".

Should this page be cleaned up and unified a bit?

[edit] Terje Vigen

Should Terje Vigen be here? NorwegianMarcus 17:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

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