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    Daredevils of Sassoun (Armenian: Սասնա ծռեր Sasna cṙer, also spelled Daredevils of Sasun) is an Armenian heroic epic poem in four cycles (parts), with...
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  • David of Sassoun (Armenian: Սասունցի Դաւիթ Sasuntsi Davit also spelled David of Sasun) is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who...
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    protagonist of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun. It is placed on a rock-like basalt pedestal in the middle of a large square in front of Yerevan's...
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  • son of Sanasar of Sassoun, the second generation strongman hero in the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun. Little Mher, son of David of Sassoun, the...
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    in 1945. He is also well known for translating the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sassoun ("Sasna Dzrer") into English. Leon Surmelian was born on November...
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    Daredevils of Sassoun, said to be based on an 8th-century oral tradition. According to Francoise Aubaile-Sallenave, the first known literary use of the...
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    French Song of Roland, the Spanish Cantar de mio Cid, the Portuguese Os Lusíadas, the Armenian Daredevils of Sassoun, the Old Russian The Tale of Igor's Campaign...
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    the compilation and study of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun. He is also remembered as the main designer of the reformed Armenian orthography...
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  • Daredevils of Sassoun, an Armenian folk epic The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian epic poem Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest epic of the world from...
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    Latin, before 814) Daredevils of Sassoun (Armenian) Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit) "Stories of the Lord", based on earlier sources Lay of Hildebrand and Muspilli...
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