BALADA E MURIMIT NË TRADITAT GOJORE TË BALLKANIT: ÇËSHTJA E ORIGJINËS NËN DRITËN E DISA INTERPRETIMEVE
BALLAD OF WALLED-UP WIFE IN BALKAN ORAL TRADITIONS: THE ISSUE OF ORIGIN IN THE LIGHT OF SOME INTERPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Folk ballad of immurement or as it is known Ballad of walled-up wife, considered as one of the folklore pearls, despite its early presence in the spiritual culture of the populations, continues to preoccupy folklorists and scholars of literary science. Its presence in the folklore of the Balkan populations, because it was related with legends known about many buildings in the Balkan countries, have provoked always scholars of this region to treat it, aiming to prove its autochthonic version as vision of their own culture (according to theory of monogenesis). Such approach no doubt that was criticized from non-Balkanic scholars, who proved the origin of this ballad far from the Balkan region. In this paper I will focus in some interpretations, the known and unknown one, with the idea to see the complexity of the origin issue of a folk creation in its entirety.

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