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| − | According to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor], Sinbad | + | According to ''[[Wikipedia]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor], the stories are a late addition to the ''[[One Thousand and One Nights]]'' cycle, only appearing as an independent cycle in 18th- and 19th-century collections. Sinbad is said to hail from Baghdad and was active during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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Sinbad the Sailor is a very popular fictional character who appears as the hero of a story-cycle[1]
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The original story
According to Wikipedia[2], the stories are a late addition to the One Thousand and One Nights cycle, only appearing as an independent cycle in 18th- and 19th-century collections. Sinbad is said to hail from Baghdad and was active during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.
Translations and adaptations
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