| The poem ends, appropriately enough, at the tomb of Gunnar, the epic hero of Njal's Saga, whose death at the hands of enemies remains unavenged. |
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| In character there is a certain resemblance between Nimrod and the Mesopotamian epic hero Gilgamesh. |
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| Moreover, for Dante, the journey is no longer an episode in the tale of an epic hero. |
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| With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. |
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| But they are meant to evoke the tiger-skin tunic worn by the Persian epic hero Rustam. |
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| The epic hero illustrates traits, performs deeds, and exemplifies certain morals that are valued by the society the epic originates from. |
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| A younger hagiolater, Karl Heinz Ruppel, wrote of Karajan as an epic hero in much the same terms as Bernstein had spoken of Mahler. |
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