Dewrêşê Evdî
The hero Dewrêş and his Edûlê: the warrior epic of the plains.
- Type
- Epic (destan)
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- Traditional (folk repertoire)
Dewrêşê Evdî is one of the great heroic destans of the Kurdish tradition: the story of the warrior Dewrêş, his love for Edûlê, and the impossible bargain that sends him alone against an army. Rooted in the tribal world of the Mêrdîn plains and the Serhed pastures, the epic joins love and battlefield death in the way the dengbêj repertoire does best; the great twentieth-century masters, Şakiro among them, sang its episodes as towering kilams. It remains a touchstone for what the unaccompanied voice can carry.
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