Similarities in Textual Contents between Burung Simbangan Poetry and Siti Zubaidah Poetry

One of the scripts stored in the Lambung Mangkurat Museum, Kalimantan Selatan Province, is Burung Simbangan Poetry. The interesting part is that this script has several similarities to Siti Zubaidah Poetry. This research is a philological study, of which the research aims to reveal the existence of a script amidst the owner’s ethnicity. The method applied to understand these scripts is a qualitative method using a content analysis technique. The data source comprises both of scripts documents. The findings of this study include several similarities in the narrative between Burung Simbangan Poetry and Siti Zubaidah Poetry. These similarities are the stories about (i) a protagonist who has multiple wives; (ii) a first wife (the oldest), who assists her husband in a war until victory; (iii) a first wife (the oldest), who disguises herself as a man; (iv) a protagonist who is imprisoned in a poisonous well; (v) a protagonist who is hit by a chained arrow; (vi) the oldest wife, who assists her husband in reclaiming a young wife kidnapped by an enemy; and (vii) a protagonist assisted by four loyal patih, or commanders