Serbian epic poetry
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Serbian epic poetry is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The main cycles were composed by unknown S
A Serb sings to the gusle (drawing from 1823). Serbian epic poems were often sung to the accompaniment of this traditional bowed string instrument.
Guslar singing of the death of Lazar, at an encampent in Javor, during the Serbian–Ottoman War (1876–78).
Kosovo Maiden by Uroš PredićDying Pavle Orlović is given water by a maiden who seeks her fiancé; he tells her that her love, Milan, and his two blood-brothers Miloš and Ivan are dead. —taken from the Serb epic poem
The Building of Skadar
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The Building of Skadar or The Walling of the Skadar or The Founding of Skadar is a poem of the pre-Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry. It is based on the motif of human sacrifice.
Serbian epic poetry
…in his 1663 idyll Śpiewacy (Singers). In 1824, Vuk Karadžić sent a copy of his folksong collection to Jacob Grimm, who was particularly enthralled by The Building of Skadar. Grimm translated it into German, and described it as "one of the most touching poems of all nations and all times". Many of the epics are about the…
Life sized sculpture of half-immured women, the Rozafa Castle museum
The castle in Shkodër (Skadar) and Bojana river