David of Sassoun (Armenian: Սասունցի Դաւիթ Sasuntsi Davit also spelled David of Sasun) is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who drove Arab Egyptian invaders out of Armenia.

[7] Academics living in Soviet Armenia, including Manouk Abeghyan, worked to recover the story, eventually forming a committee to produce a single amalgamation of the epic.

[7] In 1936, David of Sassoun, The Armenian Folk Epic, a four-cycle compilation, was published under the title Sasounts'i Davit'.

Amid and after the 16th century, Armenian literature began to delve into popular topics and themes in society other than religious (Christian), or national musings.

[10] The epic details a conflict between the people of Sassoun, ethnic Armenians, and Muslim Egyptians.

[10] Derived from Hovhannes Toumanian's iteration of David of Sassoun, translated by Thomas Samuelian.

Contemporary Armenian poems: Blind Orion flung your name into stars without shelter red mountains the same height as dreams stone crosses carved by historians who ignored the red fogs rising from cities the old land a sterile woman now walking through a desert into exile and Mher[a] waiting in the dark All the mutely beaming Multi-mirrored ballrooms And the shops a-gleaming.

In 2010, an animated film was produced called Sasna Tsrer, directed by Arman Manaryan, covering the first three cycles of Daredevils of Sassoun.

"[10] David inherits many of his father's belongings, such as a magical horse, a bow and arrow, a lightning sword, and hunting grounds that the Armenian people no longer had access to.

These inherited items are essential elements of building David's connection to his family, people, and eventually the fight that occurs between him and the leader of the Egyptians, Melik.