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Songs of the Frontier Warrior: An Albanian Epic
 
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Songs of the Frontier Warrior: An Albanian Epic (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers; Bilingual edition (1 Dec 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0865164126
  • ISBN-13: 978-0865164123
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
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"Its a real treat to have the Albanian texts in hand."

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Songs of the Frontier Warriors translated and presented by Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck with original text.

Before writing there was song. Before texts recorded words as eternal statements, performers sang long and complex stories, following basic forms but extending and weaving their tales to suit the story to their audience. Most of these living performances were lost with the introduction of writing. Only a few areas of Europe maintained traditions of oral composition after the introduction of writing. One of these areas was found in the southwest Balkans; among the peoples who kept to the traditional ways of oral epic poetry were the Albanians.

Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck present in this volume an epic cycle of the adventures of Mujo, a frontier warrior. Taken from recordings of traditional performers, this cycle represents a view of Albanian mountain life and beliefs that is hundreds if not thousands of years old. There is an Islamic air in these stories but with a deep pre Islamic, pre Christian underpinning.

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