Tomorrow I am teaching a class on Byliny at Sunderoak A&S night. I first taught it in 2006 at Pennsic, and then moved on to other folklore topics (primarily fairy tales). So I had to seriously rework my handout, and redo all my references – I bought EndNote several months ago, and realized how mush more useful I can make by bibliography and citations! I decided I will redo all my handouts (eventually), but here is the first one:

Introduction to Byliny, Russian Heroic Poems.