„Старост” поетског лика Србина јунака и узрок његове популарности у јужнословенској народној поезији
“The Age“ of the Poetic Character Serbian Hero and the Reason Behind his Popularity in Yugoslav National Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the period in time when a poetic character, bearing the title “ethnic Serb” as if it were his own personal name, was introduced into epic and lyric poetry of the South Slavs, and the cause of his vast representation in epic and lyric poetry in the area of today’s Macedonia, North Greece and West Bulgaria in the 19th century. The paper indicates towards a continued use of the ethnic Serb as an anthroponym in today’s West Macedonia between the 15th and 19th centuries and the popularity of poems about an eponymous hero in the same area. A hypothesis was therefore introduced claiming that before the 18th century he was a hero of the local folklore of this area, with poems describing him expanding to other regions over time.

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