Serbian folklore
Serbian folkloreis the folk traditions among ethnicSerbs.The earliest examples of Serbian folklore are seen in the pre-ChristianSlaviccustoms transformed intoChristianity.
Roots and characteristics
[edit]Folklore
[edit]TheApostlesof theSlavs,Cyril and Methodius,have been venerated by SerbianOrthodox Christianssince theirChristianizationin 867.[1]
InKrajišteandVlasinathere are epic stories of the extermination ofRomansin a battle, and of the settling ofSerbs(Antes)[2][3]
UnlikeEast Slavicmythology, south slavic mythology distinguishes between two differentkinds of dragons:the benevolent zmej and the malevolentala.[4]
Serbian Epic poetry
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DyingPavle Orlovićis given water by a maiden who seeks her fiancée at the battlefields ofKosovo Polje(Gazimestan), he tells her that her love,Milan,and his two blood-brothersMilošandIvanwere killed during theBattle of Kosovoby theOttoman Turks.
-taklolen from the Serb Epic poem
Serbian epic poetry is a form ofepic poetrywritten bySerbsoriginating in today'sSerbia,Bosnia and HerzegovinaandMontenegro.The main cycles were composed by unknown Serb authors between the 14th and 19th centuries. They are largely concerned with historical events and personages.
The corpus of Serbian epic poetry is divided into cycles:
- Non-historic cycle
- Pre-Kosovo cycle - poems about events that predate theBattle of Kosovo- songs about royal family-Nemanjići and folk songs
- Cycle ofKraljević Marko
- Kosovo cycle- poems about events that happened just before and after theBattle of Kosovo(no poem covers the battle itself)
- Post-Kosovo cycle - poems about post-Battle events
- Poems about the liberation of Serbia
- Poems about the liberation of Montenegro
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Komatina, Predrag (2015). "The Church in Serbia at the Time of Cyrilo-Methodian Mission in Moravia".Cyril and Methodius: Byzantium and the World of the Slavs.Thessaloniki: Dimos. pp. 711–718.
- ^Николић 1912: 165-167
- ^"Пројекат Растко: Đorđe Janković: The Slavs in the 6th century North Illyricum".
- ^Pócs, Éva(1989).Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe.FF Communications 243. p. 18.ISBN9789514105975.