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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.

List of world folk-epics

African languages

Lianja a central African epic
Silamaka a Western African epic
Sundiata an African epic

American languages

Tunkashila an American Indian epic

Cana an American Spanish epic

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

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 sagaFurther Information

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