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