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The dead heroes will live in the memory of Serbs as long as a man is left and as long as Kossovo plain endures. But as for Vuk Brankovitch the traitor:
When the worm and mole
Are at work on his bones, may his soul
Eternally singe in Hell-fire.
Curst be the womb that bore him,
Curst be his father before him,
Curst be the race and the name of him
And foul as his sin be the fame of him,
For blacker traitor never drew sword,
False to his faith, to his land, to his lord[1].
Murad's body was interred at Brussa, Lazar's at the monastery of the New Ravanitsa at Vrdnik in Syrmia[2], but Milosh Obilitch was buried where he fell. Vuk Brankovitch the traitor, who deserted with twelve thousand men, survived the battle and received recompense from the Turks, and when he died they buried him at Krushevatz, Tsar Lazar's former capital. At the beginning of last century the Serbian patriots dug up the accurséd bones and scattered the dishonoured dust to the four winds of heaven.
- ↑ Owen Meredith, op. cit. p. 75.
- ↑ To be accurate Lazar's body was at first taken to the monastery of Gračanica on Kossovo polje. Thence it was removed to the monastery of Ravanica from which place, during the great Serbian exodus, it was transferred across the Sava to the monastery at Vrdnik in the Fruška Gora. The monastery was then renamed "Nova Ravanica."
