List of world folk-epics
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World folk-epics are those epics which are not just literary masterpieces but also an integral part of the weltanschauung of a people. They were originally oral literatures, which were later written down by either single author or several writers.
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[edit] List of world folk-epics
[edit] African languages
[edit] American languages
- Tunkashila an American Indian epic
- Cana an American Spanish epic
[edit] Asian languages
- Alpamysh; all of Central Asia
- Annanmar Kathai the story of the brothers, a Tamil epic of the Kongu Nadu region
- Bidasari a Malay epic
- Biag ni Lam-Ang(Life of Lam-Ang) an epic of the Ilocanos of Northern Luzon,Philippines
- Darangen an epic from the Maranao people of Mindanao, Philippines
- Epic of King Gesar, a Tibetan epic, generally considered the longest in the world.
- Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest epic of the world from Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean world
- Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike), a Japanese epic
- Hinilawod an epic of the Panay-Bukidnons of the Visayas, Central Philippines.
- Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic from India; known as Bharathayudha in Indonesia
- Manas an epic from Kyrgyzstan
- Klei khan Y Dam San, an epic of Ede people in Central Highland (Tay Nguyen), Vietnam.
- Book of Dede Korkut an epic from Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turcomans of Iraq and other Turkic nations
- Koroglu an epic from Azerbaijan and Turkey
- Oghuz-nameh, an epic from Oghuz Turkic nations (Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, as well as Turcomans of Iraq)
- Kutadgu Bilig an epic from Central Asia, Uighurs and other Turkic nations
- Nagarakertagama an Indonesian epic
- On Jerusalem an epic written in Greek based on the Old Testament characters of Abraham, Isaac and Joseph
- Ramayana, a Sanskrit epic from India
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a Chinese novel
- Sepha Khun Chang Khun Phaen, a Thai epic
- Shahnama a Persian epic
- Silappadhikaram a South Indian epic
- Siri epic in Tulu language from Karnataka, India
- The Book of One Thousand and One Nights a collection of stories from mostly Persian and Arabic sources
- Journey to the West (also known as "Monkey"), a Chinese novel
- Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative --Texas Tech University; contains several full-text epics in their native languages and dialects
[edit] European languages
- The Aeneid, a Roman epic
- Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic written in Old English
- Bylina, a Russian epic. A bylina is analogous to a short saga, not an epic. Furthermore it the word for a kind of story rather than a title.
- Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire an Irish lament
- David of Sasun, Armenian national epic about war for freedom against Arabs in 9th century
- Edda, a collection of Icelandic poems
- Y Gododdin, a Welsh epic
- Iliad, a Greek epic
- Kalevala, a Finnish epic
- Kalevipoeg, an Estonian epic
- Lāčplēsis, a Latvian epic
- Nibelungenlied, a German epic poem
- Njál's saga, an Icelandic saga
- The Odyssey, an epic from Greece
- Prince Marko, a Serbian epic
- Táin Bó Cúailnge, an Irish epic
- The Tale of Igor's Campaign, a Slavic epic
- Zoraje, a Slovene epic
- Volsunga saga, a Scandinavian saga
