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Q is for Queen Bertha Broadfoot (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Adenet le Roi: Berte Aus Grans Piés FranceNote: I read this one in Hungarian translation, but it is also available in

P is for the Pleiades (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.The story of the MungingeeNgarrindjeriThis story is a Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal songline, as recorded by David Unaipon and

O is for Ochi-Bala (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.The epic of Ochi-BalaAltaiThis epic was first recorded in 1949 from Altai master singer Aleksej Grigorevic Kalkin. After that,

N is for the Nítíða Saga (Women's Epcis A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Nítíða SagaIcelandThis is a 14th century Icelandic riddarasaga ('knight saga') that exists in no fewer than 65

M is for the Manimekalai (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.ManimekalaiTamilThis is one of the five great Tamil epics, consisting of almost 5000 lines. It is a sequel (or parallel story)

L is for Long-Fingered-Woman (Women's Epcis A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Song of Spider GoddessAinuThis story is an epic song collected from the Hokkaido Ainu at the beginning of the 20th century. It

K is for the Knight named Silence (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Le Romane de SilenceFranceThis story is a 13th century French chivalric romance, that was discovered in 1911 "in the manor house of a British

J is for Juliana (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.CW: TortureJulianaEnglandJuliana is a 9th century Old English epic poem telling the story of St. Juliana of Nicomedia. It is

I is for Inyan Olugu (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.Inyan OluguIgboThis is an epic song collected from the Ohafia Igbo of the Cross River are of Nigeria. Officially it is

H is for Harman Dali (Women's Epics A to Z)

This year my theme for the A to Z Blogging Challenge is Women's Epics. My goal was to read 26 traditional epics from around the world that have women as their heroes. Because epics like this do exist, and they are fascinating! Read the intoduction post here.The Tale of Crazy HarmanTurkmenistanThis epic (dessan) is part of the larger Turkmen epic cycle Görogly, but it is often