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folklorica-18339	Foltz, Richard	Tales of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians	2022	2	.pdf	application/pdf	901	36	52	The Nart stories, which modern Ossetian scholars have organized into an “epic,” were until quite recently a loose and flexible collection of tales about a vanished race of men who lived for “feasting and fighting,” reflecting a clan-based raiding culture of which one can still perceive echoes in the Caucasus today. The standard Ossetian and Russian editions were both produced in the USSR during the mid-twentieth century but did not entirely eliminate variants, which are still known and transmitted within Ossetian popular culture.	cache/folklorica-18339.pdf	txt/folklorica-18339.txt