Daredevils of Sassoun

***Daredevils of Sassoun*** ( *Sasna cṙer*, din ka bɛ lahi sabiri **Daredevils of Sasun**) nyɛla Armenian heroic epic poem din nyɛ yaɣa bunahi (four cycles) ka di salima shɛli din mali yaa maa booni *[[David of Sassoun]]*, di nyɛla salima dibaa anahi maa ni yini.

Tuuli din daa niŋ ka bɛ piligi "epic" ŋɔ  nineteenth century naabu ni bɛ daa mali li mi maɣisiri  Sassoun's tɔbu tɔhiriba ni daa kpa Muslim rule 8th zaŋ hali ni 10th centuries. Baŋdi shɛba ban daa zaŋ li maɣisiri ŋɔ nyɛ philologist Manuk Abeghian ŋun be Armenia n-ti pahi Joseph Orbeli ŋun daa be Hermitage Museum din be Leningrad.

Shikuruti shɛŋa din niŋ taarihi nyɛla ban daa gbubi di taarihi hali Armenian philologist Grigoryan daa ti tuui sabi di lahabali (1981), o daa lahi sabi di buku  (1989) ka daa lee ŋmɛ nangban kpeeni zaŋ chaŋ di piligu maa. O lahabali ŋɔ nyɛla din wuhiri ni di daa pili la "prehistoric" saha." 

Daredevils of Sassoun nyɛla Armenian folklore kpaŋmaŋ tuma nim zaɣa yini. Di lahabali ŋɔ nyɛla din jɛndi tɔbu tɔhiri kara niriba anahi lahabali Armenian Highlands ka di nyɛ "tradition of heroic folktales" bɛn daa zaŋ shɛli salima kpɛri kpɛrigu din yɛn che ka di yɛltɔɣa na be biɛhigu puuni ka niriba bɛ tam di yala. "Epic" shɛŋa niriba pam ni mi nyɛ *[[Iliad]],* *[[Odyssey]]* (Homeric Greek), *[[Epic of Gilgamesh]]* (Akkadian epic shɛli din jɛndi Sumerian tales), *[[Beowulf]]* (Old English), *[[The Song of Roland]]* (Old French), *[[Cantar de mio Cid]]* (Old Spanish) ni din kam pahi. Di zaa nyɛla bɛn deei shɛli bɛ yaanima sani ka di nyɛ noli ni baŋsim ka bɛ gba wuhiri bɛ bihi mini bɛ yaansi bɛ noli. Di wuhiya ni lahabali ŋɔ pala din sabi doya ka bɛ mali dihitabili ni Sassoun saga nyɛla din mali anfaani gari di lahabali shɛli din sabi be kundi ni.

*Daredevils of Sassoun* niŋbu nyɛla bɛn daa zaŋ shɛli pahi UNESCO Intangible cultural heritage representative yuya ni yuuni 2012.

## Shinii nima
Yuuni 2010, bɛ daa yaai di shinii ka boli li *Sasna Tsrer,* directed, ŋun daa yaai li maa nyɛ Arman Manaryan ka di daa gbaai di tuuli dibaa ata (first three cycles) zaŋ n-ti *Daredevils of Sassoun.* Shinii din nyɛ minti pihinii shinii ŋɔ nyɛla bɛn daa zaŋ yuma anii niŋ shɛli.
[thumb|[Sasuntsi Davit (statue)|Statue of Sasuntsi Davit in Yerevan by Yervand Kochar (1959)]]
[200px|thumb|National epic of the Armenian people [David of Sasun. Formed between the 8th and 10th centuries. Hood. A. Kojoyan, 1922]]
thumb|170px|Cover of an Armenian comic book, Sasna Tun (''House of Sasun''), 1982 by Chris Carapetian
## Yila
Yuuni  2005, Russian-Canadian yili ŋmɛra Airat Ichmouratov daa ŋmɛ symphonic poem 'David of Sassoуn, saha ŋɔ din ka bɛ booni 20th century Armenian poet, yuuni 1966 bɛ daa lɛbigi lala Armenian folk epic ŋɔ "simple prose" din yɛn che ka bihi tooi karim li. Lala "symphonic poem" ŋɔ nyɛla bɛn daa niŋ shɛli Russia, Canada, n-ti pahi Armenia.

## Lihimi m-pahi
*Armenian literature
*Digenes Akritas
*National epic
*2016 Yerevan hostage crisis; the hostage-takers referred to themselves as *Sasna tsrrer*

## Kundivihira

## External links
*Performance of Airat Ichmouratov's symphonic poem David of Sassoun by Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra,  – May 15, 2006 (20:54)

## Further reading
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*Azat Yeghiazaryan, Daredevils of Sasun: Poetics of an Epic. Translated from Armenian by S. Peter Cowe. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2008