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Bosniak epic poetry (Bosnian: Bošnjačke epske narodne pjesme) is a form of epic poetry originating in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the Sandžak region, which is a part of modern-day Serbia and Montenegro.
Mustay-Bey of Lika (Bosnian: Mustaj-beg Lički) is a figure in the epic poetry of the Bosniaks, even though stories about him can be found among Bosniaks in all regions he is predominantly a character that is found in the epic poetry of Bosniaks living in the Bosnian Krajina (Frontier) region.
Many poems mention Vilas (fairies) accompanying Mujo. The presence of fairies in epic poetry is a trait that Bosniak epic poetry shares with other South Slavic and Slavic national poetries. A good example of this would be the poem "The Mountain Fairies Heal Mujo Hrnjica" (Muja liječe vile planinkinje) where the mountain fairies heal the ...
Arnaut Osman (English: Osman the Arnaut) is a hero of Serbian, Albanian, and Bosniak epic poetry. The Serbo-Croatian language poems about Arnaut Osman include "Young Marjan and Arnaut Osman", "Sekula and Arnaut Osman" and "Mujo Hrnjica kills Simun Brehulja". Albanian language poems about Arnaut Osman include "Sirotan Alia and Arnaut Osman". [1]
The gusle, an instrument found throughout the Balkans, is also used to accompany ancient Slavic epic poems. There are also Bosnian folk songs in the Ladino language, derived from the area's Jewish population. Bosnian roots music came from Middle Bosnia, Posavina, the Drina valley and Kalesija.
The Mountain Wreath (Serbian: Горски вијенац / Gorski vijenac) [1] is a poem and a play written by Prince-Bishop and poet Petar II Petrović-Njegoš.. Njegoš wrote The Mountain Wreath during 1846 in Cetinje and published it the following year after the printing in an Armenian monastery in Vienna.
European Union leaders were poised to agree in principle Thursday to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before ...
In his work Poetics, Aristotle defines an epic as one of the forms of poetry, contrasted with lyric poetry and drama (in the form of tragedy and comedy). [12] Epic poetry agrees with Tragedy in so far as it is an imitation in verse of characters of a higher type. They differ in that Epic poetry admits but one kind of meter and is narrative in form.