Reading list for Hero Team-Up Legends

I had the honor to participate in the Taking the Tradition On series online. I chose "Bands of Heroes" as my topic, since I have been very passionate about these legend cycles for a long time. You can watch the talk on YouTube. I promised Amy and the audience that I would compile a reading list of all the epics and sources I mentioned. So, here it is!

Nart Sagas

John Colarusso - Tamirlan Salbiev (ed.): Tales ​of the Narts: Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians (Princeton University Press, 2016)

John Colarusso (ed.): Nart ​Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs (Princeton University Press, 2016)

Dietrich Cycle

Ian Cumpstey: The Saga of Didrik of Bern (Skadi Press, 2017)

Edward R. Haymes: The Saga of Thidrek (Garland Publishing, 1988)

Wilhelm Wagner: Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Legends (2004) 

Katherine M. Buck: The Wayland-Dietrich Saga (1924) 

Lewis Spence: Hero Tales & Legends of the Rhine (1915) 

Donald Mackenzie: Teutonic Myth and Legend (1934) 

Wilhelm Wagner: Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages (1884) 

Henry Weber: Illustrations of Northern Antiquities (1814) 

Comtesse von Günther: Tales and Legends of the Tyrol (1874) 

F.E. Sandbach: The Heroic Saga-Cycle of Dietrich of Bern (1906)

Charlemagne Cycle

Thomas Bulfinch: Legends of Charlemagne (1866)

Luigi Pulci: Morgante: The Epic Adventures of Orlando and His Giant Friend Morgante (Indiana University Press, 1998)

Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (Oxford, 1999)

Glyn Burgess: The Song of Roland (Penguin, 2015)

Robert Linker: The Misfortunes of Ogier the Dane (John F. Blair, 1964)

Water Margin

Shi Nai'an: The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh (Tuttle, 2010)

S. L. Huang: The Water Outlaws (Tor Books, 2023)

Romance of Antar

Terrick Hamilton: Antar, a Bedouin Romance (1819)

Princess Fatima

Melanie Magidow: The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman (Penguin, 2021)

Attila the Hun

Gárdonyi Géza: Slave of the Huns (Corvina, 2000)

Jómsviking Saga

Lee M. Hollander: The Saga of the Jómsvíkings (University of Texas Press, 1989)

Gulaim and her warrior maidens

David Andresen: Gulaim, Warrior Maiden of Sarkop (Kindle, 2012)

(Of course, there are other hero tale cycles, like King Arthur, the Argonauts, Robin Hood, or the Fianna, but those have a whole lot of sources easily available so I'm skipping them for now)