KUJTESA HISTORIKE NË KËNGËT KRESHNIKE
HISTORICAL MEMORY IN HEROIC SONGS

Summary/Abstract: The Songs of Frontier Warriors represent the tradition of the practical and imaginative life of Albanians. They are a monument to their life's culture. Consequently, they are also identified with features of the customary tradition that emerges from the Code of Lekë Dukagjini (Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit), the customary Albanian code, known by the end of the Middle Ages and onwards. These songs still act as a monumentalizing imaginary of the traditional Albanian culture. Since the territory (landlords’ properties) is the place of common memory, the life that is developed there and described in the song is a witness to this culture and territory, as well as a proof of the cultivated sense of the community. The spiritual-symbolic territory created on this territory, lies on the background as an identity cornerstone. Meanwhile, the identity of the Frontier Warrior is complex, in its own way. In Albanian literature, the Songs of the Frontier Warriors can determine the territory according to the memory size of the Frontier Warrior's memory. The Albanian Frontier Warrior protects his life and community and territory before defending doctrinal concepts. Each of these heroes emerges strongly motivated as a literary entity, a verbal epic, which exerts powerful influence even today, not only in the literary cultures of the nations where they were created. They generate cultural, national and literary identity at once.

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