by jac3 | May 23, 2017
Congo oral epic first published in 1969 Mwindo What makes great works of literature great is that which makes them belong, not just to the canon of their own nation, but to the emergent human canon. Mwindo is a case in point....
by jac3 | May 22, 2017
The Philippines First transcribed in the Palawan language in 1971. First published in French translation in 1983; in Tagalog in 1991. Kudaman The Kudaman narrative is a sung epic linked to the yearly Tämwäy ät Ämpuq ät Paräy (Commemoration of the Master of...
by jac3 | May 19, 2017
Egypt Oral tradition: c. 14th century CEFirst transcriptions: 1986-90 Anonymous, Sirat Bani Hilal The epic as it is sung in Northern Egypt is built upon the basic historical facts about the Bani Hilal tribe: their migration westwards from the Arabian...
by jac3 | Apr 19, 2017
West Africa Oral tradition, 16th centuryWritten accounts, 16th and 17th centuriesSummaries, 19th and 20th centuriesFirst linear publication: 1990 The Epic of Askia Mohammed (Mamar Kassaye Deeda) The Epic of Askia Mohammed was recorded by Thomas A. Hale in Saga,...
by jac3 | Feb 1, 2016
United States 2021 William G. Carpenter Eϸandun, an epic poem Think of those dark age and medieval illuminated manuscripts, the thickly clotted detail on buckles, brooches, helmets, lamps, tapestries, the return to idiosyncratic and runic content after the centuries...
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