Olonkho - Nurgun Botur the Swift

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic including 'Nurgun Botur the Swift' - some 36,000 lines of verse. It has an ancient origin dating back to when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived on their former homeland and closely communicated with the Turkic and Mongolian peoples living in the Altay and Sayan regions. Zusammenfassung Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic including ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ – some 36,000 lines of verse. It has an ancient origin dating back to when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived on their former homeland and closely communicated with the Turkic and Mongolian peoples living in the Altay and Sayan regions.

Product details

• Authors: Platon A. Oyunski, P. A. Oyunsky, Platon A. Oyunski
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9781898823087
• ISBN: 978-1-898823-08-7
• No. of pages: 600
• Series: Olonkho
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies