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oral lore

kind of legend
Class type of: prose, traditional story Q46783

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
literary genre, literary form[2]
Subclass of
prose, traditional story[3][4]
Described by source
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[6][7][8][9]
Different from
saga, sage[11][12]
Has characteristic
oral tradition[10]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Narration[14]
Permanent duplicated item
Wikidata item[13]
Said to be the same as
folk tale[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en saga en legend en myth en oral lore cs německé pověsti da sagn de Sage de Sagen hu rege hu legenda hu mítosz hu monda pl podanie ru легенда ru немецкая сага ru немецкие саги ru предание ru сага (немецкий фольклор) ru саги ru сказание
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121hxwqw, /g/11dyht2rw
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
sagn
HDS ID
011302
Klexikon article ID
Sage
Lexicon istoric retic ID
3562
Lokalhistoriewiki.no article ID
Sagn
Museum-digital tag ID
28398
NL CR AUT ID
ph123516
SVKKL authority ID
0213359-nemecke-povesti
Topic's main category
Category:Oral lores

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🔗 Connections
Examples 4
Tale of Ragnar Lodbrok, Oath of Rütli, Gríms saga loðinkinna, Víglundar saga
← Genre 4
Origo Gentis Langobardorum, Treatise on the people of Wa, The Stolen Farthings, The Beam
Different from 2
saga, sage
Subclass of 2
prose, traditional story
← Different from 2
saga, sage
Described by source 1
Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
Has characteristic 1
oral tradition
Instance of 1
literary genre
Said to be the same as 1
folk tale
Topic's main category 1
Category:Oral lores
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Oral lores
← Main subject 1
Deutsche Sagen
← SNARC ID 1
Taibah University
← Said to be the same as 1
folk tale
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Summary

oral lore is a literary genre[1].

Related Entities

Taibah University

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890) +1
    Has characteristic → oral tradition
    Topic's main category → Category:Oral lores
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0213359-nemecke-povesti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259662|batch #259662]]"
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