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Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

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This collection presents English renderings of traditional Serbian epic songs and legends, accompanied by an introductory essay that traces their oral origins, social role, and poetic form. The selections recount heroic exploits, communal resistance, and sacred traditions preserved through rhythmic ten‑syllable verse and the practice of public recitation by elder singers. Explanatory notes discuss historical memory, regional variations, and the instruments and performers associated with performance. The volume also includes color illustrations and contextual commentary to guide readers through the episodes, motifs, and cultural functions of the transmitted material.

L

Lale.
The popular appellation of Serbians living in Batchka and Banat, 156

Language, Animals’.
A Serbian folk-tale dealing with, 230–235

Latins, The.
Driven by Serbians toward Adriatic coast, 1

Lazar, Knez.
Elected ruler of Serbia, 6;
makes an alliance with Ban Tvrtko against the Turks, 6, 7;
slain by Sultan Amourath, 7

Lazar, Tsar.
The Tsarina Militza confesses to the embraces of her magic lover, the Zmay of Yastrebatz, 129–133;
Zmay-Despot Vook in the wheatfields of, 131

Lazarus.
I. Of Bethany. Poems recited on the resurrection of, 52.
II. Tsar. The Tsarina Militza and, 170–176; his departure to the battlefield of Kossovo, 170–172; his glorious death, 173, 174; historical note regarding, 174–176; reference to Empire lost by, regained under King Peter I, 176

Ledyen.
Tsar Doushan sends Theodor to King Michael of, 150;
Milosh-the-Shepherd pursues champion of the Venetian king to gates of, 162;
Milosh rides to perform the second test in the meadow of, 163;
Voïvode Balatchko ordered to fight Milosh by the king of, 167

Legends.
Influence on Southern-Slavonic peoples, of Græco-Oriental and Christian myths and, 14;
influence from Greeks and Romans on Southern-Slavonic, 27–30

Love.
Lado, oy, Lado-deh, refrain which is probably the name of the ancient Slavonic Deity of Love, 52

Love.
The, of sister for her brother is proverbial in Serbia, 170

Luckless, The River.
Mention of, in the Serbian folk-tale “The Biter Bit,” 336

Lying for a Wager.
A Serbian folk-tale, 283–287