Rival bardic sagas and sectarian historiography persist into modern nations

Evidence

From remote antiquity, feuding tribes had rival sagas sung by competing bards. Some­ thing of the sort continues to the present day. There is a parallel religious, or more precisely sectarian, historiography. The more old-fashioned approach to religion has been admirably summed up in three short phrases, “I’m right, you’re wrong, go to hell.” A good deal of religious, communal, and national histori­ ography is of this kind. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1825

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said-adjacent work: competing bardic/sectarian truth-claims parallel rival Orientalist and counter-narratives — each side’s historiography validates itself against the other’s.