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The great oak tree of the maiden of the island is felled to create a bridge, ships and a hut. Canto VII - The return of Kalevipoeg Kalevipoeg takes the sorcerer's boat and returns home. The brothers tell their stories. Kalevipoeg visits his father's grave again. Canto VIII - The contest and parting of the brothers Kalevipoeg throwing the stone.
Waldere, Old English version of the story told in Waltharius (below), known only as a brief fragment; Alpamysh, a Turkic epic; Karolus magnus et Leo papa (Carolingian, Latin, before 814) Daredevils of Sassoun ; Bhagavata Purana "Stories of the Lord", based on earlier sources; Lay of Hildebrand and Muspilli (Old High German, c. 870)
Kush Nama, a Persian epic recounting the story of Kush the Tusked and Abtin. Faramarz-nama, a story about the Persian hero Faramarz; The Garshasp-nama of Asadi Tusi, a Persian epic about the hero Garshasp; Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic
Hinilawod is a 29,000-verse epic that takes about three days to chant in its original form, making it one of the longest epics known, alongside that of Tibet's Epic of King Gesar. Hinilawod is one of the many pieces of oral literature passed from one generation to the next, changed and morphed by the chanter to one degree or another as he told ...
The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.
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View on El Nabatat Island of the Aswan Botanical Garden and west bank of the Nile. Palm tree allée (landscape avenue), in the Aswan Botanical Garden.. El Nabatat Island or Kitchener's Island [1] [2] (جزيرة النباتات Geziret En Nabatat (Plant Island) or the Botanical Island) [3] [4] is a small, oval-shaped island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt.
The story follows the Sumerian king Gilgamesh, typically regarded as a historical figure, and his good friend, Enkidu through various adventures and quests that eventually lead to Enkidu's death. The second half of the epic deal with Gilgamesh, distressed about the death of his friend and his own impending mortality, as he searches for immortality.