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"El Poema de Mio Cid", or "The Poem of the Cid", is the oldest preserved Spanish epic poem, thought to date to before the thirteenth century. The author of the poem is unknown, and there is some debate as to whether it can be attributed to one or many individuals. The story probably began as an oral tradition passed down by generation, recounting the exploits of an exiled soldier during the Spanish Reconquista who regained his honor in battle against...
2) Kalevala
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The Kalevala is the national epic of Karelia and Finland and one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. Today's modern version was compiled in the 19th century by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. The epic tells the story about the Creation of Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various...
3) Kudrun
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Kudrun está considerado como el segundo gran poema épico-heroico de la Edad Media alemana tras el Cantar de los nibelungos, obra de la que es deudora en muchos aspectos, si bien de temática muy diferente. Conservado en un único manuscrito tardío (del siglo xvi), Kudrun data realmente del siglo xiii, y se le ha comparado en ocasiones con la Ilíada y la Odisea, lo que da muestra de su importancia. Efectivamente, Kudrun es una suerte de "odisea...
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The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. The poem is split into two parts: in the first part, Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther....
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In the year 778 A.D., Charles the Great, King of the Franks, returned from a military expedition into Spain, whither he had been led by opportunities offered through dissensions among the Saracens who then dominated that country. On the 15th of August, while his army was marching through the passes of the Pyrenees, his rear-guard was attacked and annihilated by the Basque inhabitants of the mountains, in the valley of Roncesvaux. About this disaster...
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Everyone is a part of the Circle of Time, eternally reliving the same life. But, Destrou is the anomaly. And, this is his first chance at life-maybe his last, if everything works out.
S'rae is a lonely girl born light-years after Destrou. Before she could achieve her dream to graduate top of her class at the School of Wind, the professor tells her she is one of the twelve destined students, from the three elemental schools chosen, to visit the Valley...
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Les bylines sont en quelque sorte les cousines épiques des contes russes. Comme elles, elles ont été transmises oralement de générations en générations et racontent de manière romancée et fantastique les exploits des bogatyrs — les preux chevaliers errants du XIe-XIIe siècle. Ceux-ci sont contre les envahisseurs les protecteurs de la terre russe et de la foi chrétienne, à tel point que le plus célèbre d'entre eux, Ilya Mouromets, figure...
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Arthurian legends have long been the source of countless popular tales. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the best known and most widely read. During King Arthur's New Year's celebration, a mysterious knight, with green clothes and horse, arrives with a challenge to the knights of the round table-any one of them may swing at the Green Knight with an axe if he too is willing to take a blow one year and one day after. Gawain, one of Arthur's...