Characters in epic poems

11th century Castilian nobleman and military leader

legendary, fictional libertine

Count of Toulouse and saint

protagonist in Akkadian creation myth

Leonese infanta

Legendary heroine

literary character from Estonian mythology

thumb|Monument to Acadians, [[St. Martinville, Louisiana]] Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764).

thumb|Tyushtya according to the painter Andrey Alyoshkin. Tyushtya IPA ['tʲuʃtʲɑ] (, IPA ['tʲuʃtʲenʲ], ) is a demigod in Moksha mythology, son of Atäm (Thunder God) and a mortal girl. According to tradition, Tyushtya is able to turn into a white horse. Amid other beliefs, it is said that Tysushta is responsible for a good harvest. He was the first Moksha King chosen by clan elders. The first Moksha title for the king derives from his name ( IPA [tʲuʃ'tʲɑn]).

thumb|Erichtho by John Hamilton Mortimer

Bulgarian popular legendary hero

late twelfth-century Old French chanson de geste

thumb|Tablet bearing part of the Danel epic, Louvre Danel (, Ugaritic: 𐎄𐎐𐎛𐎍 DNỈL, "El is judge"), father of Aqhat, was a culture hero who appears in an incomplete Ugaritic text of the fourteenth century BCE at Ugarit (now Ras Shamra), Syria.

figure of legend