Problems of studying the calmuck heroic epos «Dzhangar» at the early 21st century

The Kalmyk people are the creators and protectors of the richest oral and poetic creativity. It is presented with diverse folk genres: with fairy tales, songs, proverbs, riddles, congratulations, magtal praises. The most valuable pearl of Kalmyk folklore is the heroic epic «Dzhangar», which is one of the outstanding monuments of world folklore: with Russian sagas, Caucasian «Narty», Finnish «Kalewala», and Kyrgyz «Manass». The paper discusses the accumulation of a phenomenon of epos in the modern conditions and sums up the history of studying the heroic epos of the Kalmyk people. Attention is paid to development of methods of the complex studying the epos in all national versions

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