After surveying Serbian history, folk belief and national customs, Petrovitch presents the great heroic cycles in prose and verse: Prince Marko Kralyevitch and his horse Sharatz, Banovitch Strahinya, the dragon of Yastrebatz, the marriages of tsars and kings, Tsar Lazarus at Kosovo, and the saints dividing the treasures of heaven, followed by folk tales drawn from the collections of Vuk Karadžić.
Still one of the richest English gatherings of the South Slav epic and folk tradition. Download the free EPUB.