Albanian Folktales and Legends
Author | : Robert Elsie |
Publisher | : Peja, Kosovo : Dukagjini |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Elsie |
Publisher | : Peja, Kosovo : Dukagjini |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arti Malaj |
Publisher | : Homestead Albania Prints |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2022-04-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1659604656 |
Generations of Northern Albanian are known as great story tellers. They shared many folk tales, myths, and legends with their descendants. The collected short stories include mysterious legends of lost treasures, mystical tales of mountain fairies, superhuman powers, century-old witches, blood feuds, and more written by a twelfth-generation Albanian. The lands described in the stories are still visible today, and locals share a sense of wonder and respect the mysteries that hide beneath. Northern Albania is a true treasure of raw natural beauty and a hidden gem in Southeastern Europe.
Author | : Robert Elsie |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857725866 |
Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Robert Elsie provides comprehensive material on the 69 different tribes, including data on their locations, religious affiliations, tribal structures and relations, population statistics, tribal folklore, legends and history. Also included are excerpts from the works of prominent nineteenth and early-twentieth century writers, such as Edith Durham and Johann Georg von Hahn, who travelled through the tribal regions, as well as short biographies on prominent figures linked to the tribes. As the first book of its kind, The Tribes of Albania will be of interest to scholars and students of the Balkans, of southeastern European anthropology, ethnography and history.
Author | : Margaret Hasluck |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2015-05-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781512002287 |
The folktales of this collection were gathered and translated into English by the noted Scottish anthropologist Margaret Hasluck (1885-1948) in the late 1920s and 1930s. She collected them, for the most part, not from experienced storytellers, but directly from the children, young people and elementary school teachers she met during her long years of stay in Albania. The narratives are accordingly simple, taken, so to speak, from the mouths of babes. The Hasluck Collection of Albanian Folktales comprising 115 tales, is by far the largest ever to appear in English.
Author | : Mustafa Tukaj |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Edith Durham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Albania |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kim Malaj |
Publisher | : Homestead Albania Print |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-04-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1737493055 |
Shiny ember rocks are fuel for time; the dull rocks are a fool’s dime. An old nursery rhyme, or so they think. Itra and Danae stumble across an ancient secret kept hidden behind a reflection in time near their Albanian home. A faded memory and cryptic messages have propelled them to risk an encounter with foes from Greek mythology, altering their perception of Albanian folklore and reality. Itra and Danae grapple with events set in motion centuries ago and must choose to protect and serve or risk having the secret exposed. Will love, loyalty, and lineage be enough to hold them together, or will they lose their way in a universe they are only beginning to understand?
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Folk literature, Albanian |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Elsie |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-02-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781508417224 |
In the 1920s and 1930s, the writers of Shkodra in northern Albania were profoundly aware of the misery around them, and it is perhaps the extreme diversity of their social environment which furthered their talents. They looked to the West and longed for a new, European Albania, yet they found themselves in an archaic society, one so bound by the force of tradition and custom that progress was impossible. Their writings reflected and gave full expression to this dilemma. The present collection brings together a number of well-known short stories and prose sketches by two of the finest Albanian writers of the first half of the twentieth century: Ernest Koliqi and Migjeni. These two men of Shkodra, one raised as a Catholic and the other as Orthodox, could scarcely have been more different.
Author | : Woislav M. Petrovitch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Folk literature, Serbian |
ISBN | : |
A collection of Serbian folk tales preceded by background to the history and cultural traditions of the Slavic people, including short essays on good and evil spirits, vampires, superstition, Christmas Eve, wedding rites, etc.