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Stanoje Stanojević. Istorija Srpskoga Naroda. (Belgrade, 1908.)
Dr T. Maretić. Naša narodna epika. 263 pp. (Zagreb, 1909.)
W. Miller. The Ottoman Empire. (Cambridge, 1913.)
Maximilian A. Mügge. Serbian Folk-songs, Fairy Tales and Proverbs. (London, 1916.)
H. W. V. Temperley. History of Serbia. (London: Bell, 1917.)
L. F. Waring. Serbia. (Home University Library, 1917.)
C. Jireček. Geschichte der Serben. (Gotha, 1911.)
Dr Milan Ćurčin. Das serbische Volkslied in der deutschen Literatur. (Leipzig, 1905.)
Prof. Pavle Popović. Jugoslovenska Književnost. (Cambridge, 1918.)
—— Serbian Grammar. (In collaboration with Dragutin Subotić.) (Clarendon Press, 1918), pp. 22-24.
H. Munro Chadwick. The Heroic Age (Cambridge, 1912), pp. 103-104; pp. 313-319 (The Battle of Kossovo); pp. 441 ff.
Dr Branko Vodnik. Narodne pjesme hrvatsko-srpske. (Zagreb, 1918.)
Helen Rootham. Kossovo, Heroic Songs of the Serbs. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1920.)
Quarterly Review, vol. xxxv. pp. 66—86. Translations from the Servian Minstrelsy: to which are added some Specimens of Anglo-Norman Romances. 4to. (London, 1826.) The article begins: "Of this volume a very small edition only has been printed for private circulation.…" The specimens given in the Review are sufficiently good to make one wish there had been more of them. They are evidently based on Talvj's German version and although it is not so stated, Lockhart himself was probably the translator. On page 28 of his "Servian Popular Poetry," Bowring, referring to the "Translations," comments acidly: "The tasteful author has no doubt greatly embellished the original."


The Marko cycle, as a whole, has never been translated into English, but the following books contain renderings of twelve of the ballads as given in the second volume of Vuk's collection:

"Servian Popular Poetry," by John Bowring. (London, 1827.)
  • 1. The Moorish King's Daughter.
  • 2. Marko and the Turks.
  • 3. Death of Kralevich Marko. (All in unrhymed decasyllabics.)
"Servia and the Servians," by Chedo Mijatovich. (London: Pitman, 1908.)
  • 1. Oorosh and Marko Kralyevich.
  • 2. The Royal Prince Marko and the Veela.
  • 3. Kralyevich Marko and Moossa Kessejiya.
  • 4. How Marko abolished the wedding-tax. (All in prose.)