GRGR-related: Khirgiz light

[Peter Petto]

Jeremy Osner wrote:

>There is an article in today's New York Times about
>the Manas epic, the central poem in the Kyrgyz oral
>tradition. It is still common for Kyrgyz to memorize
>and recite the epic, which the article says is "the world's
>longest epic poem".

A Legendary Hero Guides a Reborn Kyrgyzstan:

    http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/010200kyrgyzstan-scholar.html