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Yes, classical folk tales were the ones to be in the essence of the Witcher saga, with the "top notes" so to say being mythology and "upper notes" epic poems. Like "The quantum of thruth" being inspired by Beauty and the Beast (the best musical ever)...

Should You find an epic poem "Osman" in English I heartily reccomend it. XVII chants, 100 % slavic, by a croatian renaissance writer Ivan Gundulic. The protagonists are the Polish heroes who defended Europe from the Turks in the 17th century, prince Vladislav and Jan Sobieski. There's love, sacrifice, power struggles, religion, philosophy and exoticism. By the way what I found most thrilling was a "female Achilles", but I don't wanna be the spoiler. Short and appealing, I believe perhaps the only slavic homeric epic poem...