From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

Many other " national epics ," epic poetry considered to reflect the national spirit, were produced or revived under the influence of Romantic nationalism: particularly in the Russian Empire, national minorities seeking to assert their own identities in the face of Russification produced new national poetry – either out of whole cloth, or from cobbling together folk poetry, or by resurrecting older narrative poetry.

Nepali developed a significant literature within a short period of hundred years in the 19th century, fueled by Adhyatma Ramayana ; Sundarananda Bara ( 1833 ); Birsikka, an anonymous collection of folk tales ; and a version of the South Asian epic Ramayana by Bhanubhakta.

Music was present almost universally in Greek society, from marriages and funerals to religious ceremonies, theatre, folk music and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry.

Even though Falkenbach was formed as early as 1989, the band didn't get much attention until the debut, that includes epic music that is " rife with keyboards, Viking themes, and folk music tendencies ," Falkenbach was effectively a merge of Viking metal with folk metal.

An epic atmosphere is characteristic of some folk metal bands like Primordial, Moonsorrow, Turisas and the music project Folkearth.

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

Arguably one of Plant's most significant achievements with Led Zeppelin was his contribution to the track " Stairway to Heaven ", an epic rock ballad featured on Led Zeppelin IV that drew influence from folk, blues, Celtic traditional music and hard rock among other genres.

Unlike Lazar, who died in the battle along with most of his army, Vuk managed to survive and preserve his army, which later gave material for a popular Serbian folk tradition ( represented in folk epic poems and tales ) that he betrayed Lazar in order to become supreme ruler of Serbia, a theory that is rejected by modern day Serbian historians, but not by the Serb people.

Although there are many types of epic folk songs, the most intriguing are the medieval ballads.

For example, Thompson's songs include traditional epic themes from the Dinaric regions ; Severina threads between Croatian pop and a folk sound.

Tibetan folk music includes a cappella lu songs, which are distinctively high in pitch with glottal vibrations, as well as now rare epic bards who sing the tales of Gesar, Tibet's most popular hero.

Bylinas ( epic ballads ) about folk heroes such as Sadko, Ilya Muromets, and others were often sung, sometimes to instrumental accompaniment.

* Eteriani, a folk epic ( c. 11th century )

The Song of Hiawatha was written in trochaic tetrameter, the same meter as Kalevala, the Finnish epic reconstructed by Elias Lönnrot from fragments of folk poetry.

The second story tells of an ethnic Estonian Mihkelson who will now be knighted by the Czar as he has been instrumental in putting down a rebellion in Russia ; this is the story of his pangs of conscience, but also how he brings his peasant parents to the ceremony to show his origins ( Mihkelson's Matriculation ) The third story is set in around 1824, and about the collator of Estonian folk literature Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald who, after passing his exams, does not want to become a theologian but wants to study military medicine in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of the Russian Empire ; meanwhile, he meets a peasant who can tell him about the Estonian epic hero Kalev, here of the epic Kalevipoeg ( Two Lost Sheets of Paper ).

* In some epic folk songs about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo, he is described as invulnerable to normal weapons, driving his enemies to cast a silver bullet in order to murder him.

Prominent conflicts were immortalised in several folk tales and songs, such as the epic ballad To tragoudi tou Daskalogianni of 1786, about the resistance warfare under Daskalogiannis.

Independent People () is an epic novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935 ; literally the title means " Self-standing self-reliant folk ".

In the sparsely populated East Karelian backwoods, mainly in Vienan Karelia, Elias Lönnrot collected the folk tales that ultimately would become Finland's national epic, the Kalevala.

There are three basic genres in the tradition: epic ; folk poetry ; and folklore.

1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.

However, folk traditions in China and other East Asian countries have added many distinctive characteristics and legends.

Romantic nationalism inspired the processes whereby folk epics, retold legends and even fairy tales, published in existing dialects, were combined with a modern syntax to create a " revived " version of a language.

However, they were not the dominant type of popular film in Weimar Germany, and were outnumbered by the production of costume dramas, often about folk legends, which were enormously popular with the public.

His memory was also kept alive by innumerable Ukrainian and Russian folk ballads and legends, which refer to him as Krasno Solnyshko, that is, the Fair Sun.

In 1812, they published their first volume of 86 folk tales, Kinder-und Hausmärchen, followed quickly by two volumes of German legends and a volume of early literary history.

Many folk stories and legends about Ní Mháille have survived since her actual days of pirating and trading.

The stories may nonetheless be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends ( which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described ) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.

Simon also developed an interest in jazz, folk and blues, especially in musical legends Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly.

His reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Connecticut's borders through the circulation of folk legends celebrating his exploits.

Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of legends and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and comedic performances and skits.

It exists mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), and oral literature such as the folk stories of Emperor Duyu 杜宇 who lost his kingdom and died a miserable death.

This approach has been criticized by modern researchers who have proposed that themes mentioned in other genres, such as as fairy tales, legends, and records of folk beliefs and magic practices, might compliment folk songs as each genre contains different themes and might provide only partial insight into mythology.

Some stories from the Popol Vuh continued to be told by modern Maya as folk legends ; some stories recorded by anthropologists in the 20th century may preserve portions of the ancient tales in greater detail than the Ximénez manuscript.

By now, Raitt was also playing folk and rhythm and blues clubs in the Boston area, performing alongside established blues legends such as Howlin ' Wolf, Sippie Wallace, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, all of whom she met through Waterman.

Woodcut artist Tom Huck grew up in Potosi, where he has taken inspiration from many of the region's local legends and folk tales.

With the arrival of the printing press a process begins in which folk yarns and legends are collected within a frame story and then mass published.

It might be viewed as a parody of Le Morte d ' Arthur ( and other examples of the chivalric romance ), in which case the novel form would be the direct result of poking fun at a collection of heroic folk legends.

Dominican music: Merengue had been popular in the Dominican Republic for decades since evolving out of confusing folk origins, but did not truly become a form of pop music until the early 1960s, when legends like Johnny Ventura brought the music to new audiences at home and abroad.

Along with the major Hindu myths, he has included legends and folk tales from Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Syrian Christian and tribal sources.

Stagger Lee ( also " Stackalee ," " Stackolee " and " Stagolee ") ultimately becomes a folk figure of the trickster type as numerous legends accumulated around him.

Along with the historical aspects are folk traditions, such as the incorporation of Judge Jeffreys and the many legends based around both the Doones and Tom Faggus.