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The Kosovo Maiden or Maiden of the Blackbird's Field ( sr-Cyrl, Косовка девојка, Kosovka devojka) is the central figure of a poem with the same name, part of the
''The Maiden of Kossovo'', Songs from Kosovo cycle
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The Kosovo Maiden or Maiden of the Blackbird's Field ( sr-Cyrl, Косовка девојка, Kosovka devojka) is the central figure of a poem with the same name, part of the Kosovo cycle
Serbian epic poetry ( sr, Српске епске народне песме, Srpske epske narodne pesme) is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The ...
in the Serbian epic poetry
Serbian epic poetry ( sr, Српске епске народне песме, Srpske epske narodne pesme) is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The ...
. In it, a young beauty searches the battlefield for her betrothed fiancé and helps wounded Serbian warriors with water, wine and bread after the Battle of Kosovo
The Battle of Kosovo ( tr, Kosova Savaşı; sr, Косовска битка) took place on 15 June 1389 between an army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović and an invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan ...
in 1389 between Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
and the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
. She finally finds the wounded and dying warrior Pavle Orlović
Pavle Orlović ( sr-cyr, Павле Орловић) is a semi-mythological hero of the Serbian epic poetry#Corpu, Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry; he was a Serbian knight, one of the military commanders under Lazar of Serbia, Prince Lazar tha ...
who tells her that her fiancé Milan Toplica
In Serbian epic poetry, Toplica Milan ( sr-Cyrl, Топлица Милан; or Milan Toplica, sr-Cyrl, link=no, Милан Топлица), also known as Milan from Toplica ( sr, / ), was a Serbian knight who died during the historical Battle o ...
and his blood-brothers Miloš Obilić
Miloš Obilić ( sr-cyr, Милош Обилић, ) was a legendary Serbian knight who is reputed to have been in the service of Prince Lazar during the Ottoman invasion of Serbia in the late 14th century. He is not mentioned in contemporary sou ...
and Ivan Kosančić
Ivan Kosančić ( sr-cyr, Иван Косанчић) was a Serbian knight who died during the historical Battle of Kosovo in 1389.
Biography
He was born in the upper Toplica region (south Serbia)- mountain Radan, near the town of Kuršumlija ...
are dead. Before the battle they had given her a cloak, golden ring and veil for the wedding as a promise of safe return, but they were slain and Pavle pointed to the direction of the bodies. The poem finishes with: "O wretch! Evil is your fortune!The poem became very popular as a symbol of womanly
If I, a wretch, were to grasp a green pine,
Even the green pine would wither."
compassion
Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as being sensitive to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on n ...
and charity. Serbian painter Uroš Predić
Uroš Predić ( sr-Cyrl, Урош Предић, ; Orlovat, 7 December 1857 – Belgrade, 12 February 1953) was a Serbian Realist painter. Predić is perhaps best known for his early works depicting ordinary people, as well as his many portrait ...
took up the theme in 1919 with an oil painting of the same title. In 1907, Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović
Ivan Meštrović (; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb. He studied at Pavle Bilinić's ...
created a marble relief of the subject as a part of his Kosovo cycle
Serbian epic poetry ( sr, Српске епске народне песме, Srpske epske narodne pesme) is a form of epic poetry created by Serbs originating in today's Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and North Macedonia. The ...
. Another Croatian artist, painter Mirko Rački
Mirko Rački (13 October 1879 – 21 August 1982) was a Croatian painter.
Rački was born in Novi Marof, and graduated from the Teacher's Academy in Zagreb. He then went to the private art school of Heinrich Strehblow in Vienna, then studied at t ...
, painted a version of Kosovo Maiden.
See also
*Mother Serbia
Mother Serbia ( sr, Мајка Србија / ''Majka Srbija'', Србија мати / ''Srbija mati'';
), Serb Mother (Serbian: Српска мајка / ''Srpska majka'') or Mother of All Serbs (Serbian: Мајка свих Срба / ''Majka ...
*National personification
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda.
Some early personifications in the Western world tended to be national manifestations ...
External links
''The Maiden of Kossovo'', Songs from Kosovo cycle
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