Alright tooters, out of curiosity (and because I am way down in this rabbit hole):
If you hear "epic" what stories do you automatically think of?
(In the interest of narrowing it down, let's say "traditional epic"!)
@TarkabarkaHolgy As a quick reaction?
Homer's work, Canterbury Tales, Hella Haasse's In a Dark Wood Wandering (dutch: Het woud der verwachting), Lord of the Rings.
The Lord Of The Rings
@TarkabarkaHolgy the fight between Gandalf ans the balrog
@TarkabarkaHolgy first thought is Cantar de mio Cid / The Poem of the Cid, second thought is Homer
@TarkabarkaHolgy For me, the first stories that come to mind are The Lord of the Rings, Beowulf, Völsunga saga, and the Nibelungenlied.
Clearly, I have specific leanings in this area (I studied a lot of Tolkien at university). 
@TarkabarkaHolgy In the US, my suspicion is that most folks will name Iliad and Odyssey, since those are the two most often focused on in high school literature classes as the classic examples of epics.
3946] @TarkabarkaHolgy those in JIRA.
@TarkabarkaHolgy The Odyssey, the Iliad, Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Kristin Lavransdatter, Röde Orm.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Iliad, Odyssey, Gilgemesh, Icelandic Sagas, Mahabharata, Beowulf. Nothing modern to me.
@TarkabarkaHolgy The Iliad. Mahabharata. The Lord of the Rings.
@TarkabarkaHolgy ...gilgamesh? beowulf? LotR?
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Manas
Ilias & Odyssey
Kalevala
Gilgamesh & Etana
@TarkabarkaHolgy Norse mythology. Homer. That kind of thing.
@TarkabarkaHolgy La Chanson de Roland, Iliad & Odyssey, Die Niebelungen…
...of Gilgamesh
In a film? Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea in "The Ten Commandments".
Saw it as a child in the cinema ... staring up at the walls of water pouring seemingly right there in Birmingham just for us!!
That was *Epic* :)
@TarkabarkaHolgy iliad, odyssey, gilgamesh, bhagavad gita, yer targyn (kazakh epic)
@TarkabarkaHolgy I think if Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea, which of course reinvents sagas.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Nordic, or Gilgamesh.
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Anything above apart from Lord of the wrings (still absolutely no idea what that's all about; please try and repair me).
Gulliver's travels,
My Grandmother,
anything concerning;
Pavarotti,
Tebaldi,
Pucini,
William Shatner,
Pino Daniele,
Young Rossini AND Von Beethoven (!)
Caravaggio,
Bulgarian yoghurt
Eccccc
Anything I haven't had the time for yet to explore.
There is so much to discover. I need more than just one lifetime.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Gilgamesh & The Odyssey
@TarkabarkaHolgy Also, this may be the name of an underground medieval/chiptune math rock band that lives in my head.
@TarkabarkaHolgy traditional epic? Probably the oddesey & the eddas. In my head the rest of the traditional tales are too fragmented (Arthur, Robin Hood, etc) to be epic.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Homer, Icelandic eddas (and other Scandinavian sagas), Gilgamesh, Song of Roland, Beowulf
@TarkabarkaHolgy The Odyssey, The Iliad, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata.
Trad epic? Not the answer you're looking for I'm sure but any personal story about a rock climbing adventure gone dangerously awry but survived.
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Beowulf, Lāčplēsis, something Old Norse.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Beowulf, Odyssey
@TarkabarkaHolgy The Epic of Gilgamesh
@TarkabarkaHolgy Without¹ having read/heard it myself, first thing that came to mind was Eddan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_E…
¹so I might be very wrong on this one
