Epic folk songs of the Balkan peoples

Publisher: Prosvetno delo

All Balkan peoples throughout the Middle Ages, and especially in the period of the arrival of the Ottomans – Turks, (from XIV to XVIII) created their own rich epic (combat, heroic, Ayudut, comic and other similar liberation) poetry, praising their freedom-loving aspirations and longings before the danger of their centuries-old falling under the slavery of a foreigner – a conqueror. Even in its earliest epic folk verses – historical, dark animals and social poetic images are sung …