Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Building of Skadar" in English language version.
Karadzic recorded one version of the ballad from one of his prize informants, a man called Old Rashko, who was born in old Herzegovina,... The ballad was first published in 1815.
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In the 'Walling of Skadar' Vukasin contrives to get his brother's wife immured as a foundation sacrifice to the Vila.
For example, "The Building of Skadar" (Vuk II, 25) is based on the motif of a blood sacrifice being required to make a building stand.
Pretkosovski ciklus pjeva najviše o Neman jićima i Mrnjavče. vićima. Najviše pjesama ima o Nemanji, sv. Savi, Milutinu i Dušanu Silnom. Najljepše pjesme ovoga ciklusa su: »ženidba Dušanova«, »Zidanje Skadra« i »Uroš i Mrnjavčevići«.
"The Building of Skadar" is an old epic, the events of which are reported to have occurred during the first half of the fourteenth century.
Najzad Jovan N. Tomić zaključuje da teren postanka pesme »Zidanje Skadra na Bojani« nije daleko od samog Skadra."
Томићевом изналажењу локалитета Вуковој песми Зидање Скадра не може да се приговори
У јуну 1371. војска коју су предво- дили краљ Вукашин и његов син Марко дошла је под Скадар, али је поход нагло прекинут
Goethe published a German translation of it but found its spirit 'superstitiously barbaric'.