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Storytelling
There is unfortunately not much available information about Scythian storytelling or related arts.
Herodotus recounts several mythical and historical tales that he has been told by individuals in/near Olbia, but these are described rather than transcribed.
One potentially relevant collection of tales is the Nart sagas, stories of a legendary and somewhat supernatural/extraordinary group of heroes that have persisted among cultures in the Caucasus mountains. The stories were orally transmitted for centuries (if not milennia), recorded by Soviet-era ethnologists.
A few collections of some Nart sagas, translated into English by John Colarusso, have been published by Princeton UP: