Walter May's English verse translation of the Ossetian Nart sagas, edited by John Colarusso and Tamirlan Salbiev, Princeton University Press, 2016.
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Reliability tier 1: a peer reviewed university press edition of Walter May's verse translation, edited by Colarusso with Ossetian specialist Tamirlan Salbiev, the standard English edition of the Ossetian branch of the Nart cycle. NotesColarusso and Salbiev's edition of the Ossetian Nart sagas, consulted 2026-08-15. The Ossetian branch differs from the Circassian material Colarusso's 2002 volume covers in dialect, in the name forms of its heroes (Soslan rather than Sosruko, Satana rather than Satanaya) and in its own distinct emphases, including the Wastyrdzhi material below, which sits outside Colarusso's own Circassian-focused corpus.
Citation
AuthorWalter May, translator; John Colarusso and Tamirlan Salbiev, editors
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year2016
Source TypeCritical translation with scholarly introduction
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Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)
This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Deities, 20 claims: 14 well-attested, 4 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Other Writings, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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