Narts are an epic that exists among a number of peoples of the North Caucasus, which is based on tales about the origin and adventures of heroic heroes (“Narts”). Exists primarily among the Abkhaz-Adyghe peoples and Ossetians. There are also known versions of the epic found among the Chechens and Ingush, Karachais and Balkars, etc. It exists in prose and poetic form. The epic is based on the ancient Alan epic cycle, as well as the culture of the Northern Iranian Scythian-Sarmatians and the autochthonous tribes of the Koban culture of the Central Caucasus.