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Albanian folklore is the folk tradition of the Albanian people.Albanian traditions have been orally transmitted – through memory systems that have survived intact into modern times – down the generations and are still very much alive in the mountainous regions of Albania, Kosovo and western North Macedonia, as well as among the Arbëreshë in Italy and the Arvanites in Greece, and the ...
Albanian warrior dance in circle around fire (), drawing from the book Childe Harold's Pilgrimage written by Lord Byron in the early 19th century. Practiced for several hours with very short intervals, the dance gets new vigour from the words of the accompanying song that starts with a battle cry invoking war drums, and which is of a piece with the movement and usually changed only once or ...
Image Year No. Description Albanian folk iso-polyphony: 2008 00155: Iso-polyphony is a traditional part of Albanian folk music. Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock + [a] 2023 01964: Transhumance is a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures. K'cimi dancing of Tropojë ...
Albanologist Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck stated that the character is very popular in Albanian myths and fairy tales. [22] The quest for the e Bukura e Dheut is a very popular and frequent motif in Albanian folktales: [11] [12] the princely hero must search for or rescue the Earthly Beauty, even going into her mystical underworld palace.
Robert Elsie (June 29, 1950 – October 2, 2017) was a Canadian-born German scholar who specialized in Albanian literature and folklore.. Elsie was a writer, translator, interpreter, and specialist in Albanian studies, [1] being the author of numerous books and articles that focused on various aspects of Albanian culture and affairs.
Dozon collected the tale in Albanian in his book Manual de la langue Chkipe [3] and published it in French with the title Les Soeurs Jaleuses, in Contes Albanais. [4] Dozon's tale was also translated into German by linguist August Leskien in his book of Balkan folktales, with the title Die neidischen Schwestern ("The Jealous Sisters"). [5]
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Describing a goddess of the underworld and at the same time a personification of springtime, the Albanian e Bukura e Dheut ("the Beauty of the Earth") is evidently an epithet of the Albanian equivalent of Persephone. [19] According to some Albanian traditions, Prende is the daughter of Zojz, the Albanian sky and lightning god. [17]