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506 Pages
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Routledge
506 Pages
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Routledge
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Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends – one of the longest being ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published here. Like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Finnish Kalevala, the Buryat Geser, and the Kirghiz Manas, the Yakut Olonkho is an epic of a very ancient origin dating back to the period – possibly as early... Read more
Preface to the English Edition by Vasily Ivanov, Foreword by Anna Dybo, Olonkho - The Ancient Yakut Epic by Innokenty Pukhov, Translating the Olonkho by Alina Nakhodkina, Acknowledgements Select Glossary and Commentaries by Alina Nakhodkina, Map of Sakha (Yakutia) and Autonomous Areas of Russia, List of Translators and Editors OLONKHO - NURGUN BOTUR THE SWIFT, Introduction Song 1, Song 2, Song 3, Song 4, Song 5, Song 6, Song 7, Song 8, Song 9
Biography
The Olonkho was written down for the first time in the indigenous Sakha language of Yakutia (Sakha Republic, northeastern Siberia) in the early 1930s by Platon A. Oyunsky (1893–1939), politician, founder of the Sakha literary language, poet and story-teller. The Olonkho was written down for the first time in the indigenous Sakha language of Yakutia (Sakha Republic, northeastern Siberia) in the early 1930s by Platon A. Oyunsky (1893–1939), politician, founder of the Sakha literary language, poet and story-teller.
