the mabinogion is the only one full-length folk epic which has survived in english literature.
the only one full-length folk epic which has survived in english literature?
the mabinogion
möller grew up in north frisia after its conquest by germany in the german–danish war of 1864 and attended german universities (pulsiano and treharne 2001:447). he began teaching germanic philology at the university of copenhagen in 1883 and continued to do so for over thirty-five years (ib.). also in 1883, he published "das altenglische volksepos in der ursprünglichen strophischen form", 'the old english folk epic in the original strophic form', in which he argued, among other things, that "beowulf" had been composed in a fixed meter which was corrupted by later poets (ib.).









































section::::indo-european and semitic.
hermann möller
ibalong epic









































the ibálong, also known as handiong or handyong, is a 60-stanza fragment of a bikol full-length folk epic of bikol region of philippines, based on the indian hindu epics ramayana and mahabharta. the epic is said to have been narrated in verse form by a native poet called kadunung.
ibalong epic