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Alamgzhi Mergen Molodoi i Ego Sestritsa Agui Gokhon
[ Buryat heroric epos : Alamgzhi Mergen Young and his sister Agui Gokhon]
Comp. by M.I. Tulokhonov
Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1991 311 p Serie: Pamiatniki Fol`klora Narodov Sibiri i Dal`nego Vostoka Hardcover. w/record ISBN: 5020293881 Language: Buryat and Russian
The heroic epos, popularly called "uliger", is the apogee of Buryat oral poetry. The Alamgzhi Mergen uliger in this volume, was recorded in 1903 by Ts. Zhamtsarano in his field work under the auspice of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. It was first published in 1913 as a part of a new series Examples of Folk Literature of Mongolian Tribes. The text of the uliger has a metrical structure grounded in recitation. Each uliger has its own individual melody. Parallel text in Buryat and Russian.
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