Olonkho : Nurgun Botur the Swift

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic including 'Nurgun Botur the Swift' - some 36,000 lines of verse. It has an ancient origin dating back to when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived on their former homeland and closely communicated with the Turkic and Mongolian peoples living in the Altay and Sayan regions.