Albanian Folktales And Legends: Selected And Translated From The Albanian, Paperback - Robert Elsie
About The About the Author:Robert Elsie is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Albanian studies and the author of many books on the history and culture of Albania. They are recited in the evenings after a day's work or out in the fields, are learned by heart and pass, as if immortal, from one generation to the next.Folktales are still very much alive in the mountains of Albania, a land of haunted history.elsie
The adventures of Muja and Halil and their band of mountain warriors are still told and indeed sung in epic verse in the northern Albanian mountains, and the exploits of the great Scanderbeg, the Albanian national hero who freed large parts of the country from Turkish rule in the fifteenth century, are recounted everywhere Albanians gather, as if events five centuries old had taken place yesterday.About the Author:Robert Elsie is an internationally recognized expert in the field of Albanian studies and the author of many books on the history and culture of Albania. Included in this collection are not only folktales but prose versions of some of the best-known Albanian legends (based on historical or mythological events and figures). Folktales are still very much alive in the mountains of Albania, a land of haunted history. They are recited in the evenings after a day's work or out in the fields, are learned by heart and pass, as if immortal, from one generation to the next. see www.elsie.de Whose imagination could not be captured by the cunning of the Scurfhead, by the demands of the Earthly Beauty, by the heroic feats of Muja and Halil or by the appearance of a fiery Kulshedra in the forest?
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