Nebulonic folk literature

Nebulonic folk literature.

Folk Legends
The folk legends are the legends told among the Nebulones which reach back to the times before literacy was introduced. They are not properly referred to as myths, as they were not written as part of a religious belief.

Though the legends were written before the Nebulones were literate, the stories do survive in a number of media:
 * Writings from later periods. In the Golden Age of Nebulonic literature, some authors took it upon themselves to record these legends. Some famous collections are the Legendary of Nokol Goldfinch by Nokol Goldfinch, the Jewels of the Past by Merke Mallard, and Star Stories by Femp Sparrow. References to unrecorded legends also abound in Golden Age literature, and these are the only sources we have for the legends.
 * Legends that still survive. These legends were very popular, and so many of them have survived into the present day, though there is some debate as to which legends told nowadays actually go back to the Pre-Literate Period. Several post-Golden Age collections of Nebulonic legends exist.

Historical legends
The historical legends are legends that have grown around historical events or that describe fictional historical events. One such is the Legend of the Founding of the Nebulonic People, which has been recorded in many forms. Both Nokol Goldfinch and Merke Mallard record it.

Star stories
These are stories based on constellations.