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Scholars of epic literature have emphasized from the beginning of comparative studies devoted to them that the dynamic improvisation and poetic evolution of this, the most developed of oral literary forms, stops when the story or saga recited or sung by the bard or minstrel is written down.  Surely this was a major factor in sealing the development of what is now called Davit of Sassoun and regarded today as the Armenian national epic.  The publication of the first transcribed variant of Sasna tsrer (literally the crooked or bent ones of Sassoun, that is different than straight or normal, thus iconoclasts, non-conformists, independent beings), as the various versions of the saga were called when Fr. Garegin Srvandztiants recorded what he heard from an illiterate reciter in 1873 and published the first ever version of it in Constantinople the following year.  The epic continued to be recited decades after in the countryside of Western Armenia around Sassoun and Moush, about fifty kilometers southwest of Van, and neighboring areas, as we know by the collection of other, often very different, versions in the following decades.