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French and Anglo-Saxon specialists of Caucasian mythology tend to consider it as conservatory and archaic, little or not affected by cultural contacts with neighbouring regions. However, several examples show that the Ossetians and their neighbours regularly borrowed from the Russians, for instance various mythological motifs characteristic of the byliny., Lajoye Patrice. L'influence du folklore russe sur le folklore du Caucase : l'exemple des légendes ossètes sur les Nartes. In: Revue Russe n°40, 2013. pp. 33-40.