An absolute must for studying Ossetian: The Nart Sagas.

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There is a great mobile app available in the Google PlayStore, called 'ирон чиныг', that allows you to listen and read in Ossetian! They also have content on Youtube and Instagram, including some of the stories here, either way, it is worth checking out!!

The Nart Sagas are ubiquitous in the Caucasus and found in many forms across language families and cultures. Princeton University Press states that the Nart Sagas "is to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western Civilization.". The word Nart comes from the Proto-Iranian word 'Nar' meaning hero/man, in Chechen it means 'giant'. Иронау, the noun only has the plural form, making нартӕ a 'plurale tantum'.

One thing I enjoy about reading these sagas is some of the more obscure or archaic usages you find. In the first paragraph, for example, you can find the term Бонвæрноны, which is a star seen in the morning around sunrise. Older texts like this lso give us insight into how a language changes overtime, these days you would certainly find either words/phrases that have shifted, or perhaps been replaced outright by Russian usage.