The book is a worthy monument of a great national epic.

In historical terms, it is sometimes equated as being the American response to the national epic.

The business just now before the country makes a very good detective story; but as a national epic it is a little depressing.

It was the only and first national epic in which we Americans participated; that's why."

As Melfi's son said last season, they're our national epic, or something like that.

A national myth may sometimes take the form of a national epic.

The name of the band is derived from the Finnish national epic.

But this is more than a national epic.

"Presumably, a national epic can be translated," he said.

This list can be compared with two others, national epic and list of world folk-epics.

"A national epic made into a horse race?

He wrote long after the natural age of national epic, the age of Homer.

Where no obvious national epic existed, the "Romantic spirit" was motivated to fill it.

"I was reciting a quotation from the Finnish national epic!

Shahnameh (Iran's national epic, with a character by this name)

Sometimes "national epics" such as the Nibelunglied have had a galvanizing effect on social politics.

Our national epic has yet to be written, Dr Sigerson says.

He is mentioned several times in the Finnish national epic, Kalevala.

Pan Tadeusz is recognized as the national epic of Poland.

Among its first publications was the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.

A nation can have its own distinct national epic in addition to a supranational and/or a language epic.

It became Rome's national epic almost immediately and is now considered one of the greatest works of Western literature.

James Naughtie on how a committee of Bible translators produced a "national epic."

Salama got its name from Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

The Kalevala is considered the national epic of Finland.