اولونخو
Sign in to saveOlonkho (, ; ; ) is a series of Yakut and Dolgan heroic epics. The term Olonkho is used to refer to the entire Yakut epic tradition as well as individual epic poems. An ancient oral tradition, it is thought that many of the poems predate the northwards migration of Yakuts in the 14th century, making Olonkho among the oldest epic arts of any Turkic peoples. There are over one hundred recorded Olonkhos, varying in length from a few thousand to tens of thousands of verses, with the most well-known poem Nyurgun Bootur the Swift containing over 36,000 verses.
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- Author
- P. E. Efremov
- First published
- 1984
- Editions
- 2
- Subjects
- Dolgan Folk literature, Tales
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Subclass of
- epic literature
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Image
- Olonkho - the oldest epic arts of the Yakut people.jpg
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- described at URL
- ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/00145
- indigenous to
- Yakuts
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Russia
- intangible cultural heritage status
- Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
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