The Lay of Kossovo Serbias Past And Present 1389 1917
The Lay of Kossovo Serbias Past And Present 1389 1917
F W Frederick William Harvey
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Regional interests and religious jealousies were thus for over five centuries to rivet the bondage of the Serbian people and to bar the way to any political union between the kindred members of the South Slav race. But, through all this, the epic Lay of Kossovo, sung from generation to generation by peasant bards to the strains of the one-stringed guzla in the remotest mountain glens and the busiest market-places, has still been a common heirloom of the whole people. It has perpetuated the trad...ition of national unity and kept green the memory of heroic deeds. It held up withal the traitors of the past to lasting obloquy. The lesson brought home by it is one which all members of the South Slav race take to heart to-day. It is summed up in the Serbian motto, " Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava " " Union only saves the Serbs. " (" Times " on Kossovo Day, June 28th, 1916. ) THE EPIC LAY OF KOSSOVO. Three Serbian Ballads. 1 There resteth to Serbia a glory, ' A glory that shall not grow old ; ' There remaineth to Serbia a story, A tale to be chanted and told !
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