Songs of the Frontier Warriors

Front Cover
Robert Elsie, Janice Mathie-Heck
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004 - 414 pages
The Epics of Gilgamesh, Homer, Vergil, Shahnameh, are sources of our knowledge of religious beliefs. This epic is a welcome introduction to the spiritual world of the Albanians as they fought the crusades. The "Songs of the Frontier Warrior is the first English-language translation ever made of Albanian epic verse. As the product of a little-known culture and a difficult, rarely studied language, the Albanian epic has tended to remain in the shadow of the Serbo-Croatian, or more properly, Bosnian epic, with which it has undeniable affinities. This translation may thus be regarded as an initial attempt to rectify the imbalance and to give scholars and the reading public in general an opportunity to delve into the exotic world of the northern Albanian tribes. The present bilingual edition offers a broad selection of the best known songs. Also included are an introduction, a glossaries of terms and sources, and a selective bibliography.
 

Contents

Section 1
2
Section 2
3
Section 3
10
Section 4
11
Section 5
30
Section 6
31
Section 7
48
Section 8
49
Section 23
211
Section 24
230
Section 25
242
Section 26
243
Section 27
256
Section 28
257
Section 29
280
Section 30
290

Section 9
54
Section 10
55
Section 11
90
Section 12
91
Section 13
102
Section 14
103
Section 15
130
Section 16
131
Section 17
154
Section 18
170
Section 19
171
Section 20
188
Section 21
189
Section 22
210
Section 31
291
Section 32
312
Section 33
328
Section 34
340
Section 35
346
Section 36
347
Section 37
354
Section 38
355
Section 39
360
Section 40
361
Section 41
367
Section 42
375
Section 43
380

Bibliographic information