Kosovo | The Legendary Epic of Kosovo | Isa Elezi-Lekgjekaj | The Song of Halil’s Wedding (vv 1-20)

“The Song of Halil’s Wedding”.
Isa Elezi-Lekgjekaj (Isa Muriqi), voice and lahuta (Rugova, Kosovo).
This video presents the opening twenty verses of a performance of the “Song of Halil’s wedding”. It is part of the legendary epic cycle of Kreshnike, the borders heroes; the protagonists are the two brothers Muji and Halil and their friends, and the song tells the story of the heroic feats accomplished by the young Halil in order to marry the beautiful Gjeline, daughter of the king of Talir. These songs are often shared among different cultures and languages of the Balcanic area. Singers accompany themselves with a one string fiddle, known as gusle in the Slavic languages and lahuta in Albanian. Today the most important area of presence of these songs is the region of Rugova, in Kosovo, at the border with Montenegro. They are still performed during social gathering, festivities and wedding parties. The singers ‘compose in performance’ their song, re-combining each time a repertory of verses and expressions (formulae) in different ways, while keeping always the core of the story to be narrated.
Isa Elezi-Lekgjekaj is today widely recognized as the greatest living performer of Rugova.
The importance of legendary epic songs in the border areas between Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and Serbia, was, among others, highlighted by the fundamental research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord in the 30s of the last century; the research and the study of these repertoires, in relation to the writing of the Homeric epic, allowed the two scholars to focus on concepts of fundamental importance in the study of both written and oral epic traditions. Moreover, some of the landmark figures of ethnomusicology like George Herzog and Béla Bartók were attracted by the musical features of these songs and provided the first significant analytical contributions.
The song of Halil was performed during the concert The legendary epic of Kosovo, promoted by the Institute of Comparative Music Studies at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The event, coordinated by Nicola Scaldaferri, was introduced by a seminar with David Elmer, Zymer Neziri and Ettore Cingano, and saw the collaboration of Leav (University of Milan), Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature, Harvard University, Albanological Institute of Prishtina, Durham University's Department of Music.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 13 November 2018
More on this event: www.cini.it/en/...
Preliminary research: leavlab.com/the...
Filming: Simone Tarsitani, Carlo Mezzalira, Costantino Vecchi
Video: Simone Tarsitani
Translation of the lyrics: Nicola Scaldaferri

[@shqiptariidukagjinit5650]

This sounds way better than modern music. Albania to me has the best music in the Balkans. The lahuta sounds great.

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

Indeed Albanian pagan music and heritage is great. Modernism dosen't come close

[@dt9637]

That's Serbian, not Albanian. It's called Gusle. It's not just music, it's more than that.

[@Christian_-mt6dd]

@@dt9637 this is an albanian instrument called lahuta. This instrument has nothing to do with serbs.

[@mitarristanovic2299]

@@shqiptariidukagjinit5650 it is origin Mongolian instrument.Serb brought in 6 century from east from mongolian.epic poetry is the same.just write in you tube Mongolian instrument

[@myeyesfeellikecrap3510]

@@mitarristanovic2299 what would serbs be in serbia unless they come from there🤷‍♀️

[@wawaviva]

No one can play lahuta like Albanians. My intentions are not to glorify anyone as we are all children of the Balkans . Peace ✌️🕊️.it's just a preference.

[@Christian_-mt6dd]

It's our instrument anyways.

[@emir9064]

we're the same in sanxhak 🇦🇱

[@aviationfansalbania2332]

Even sign like them ! Gheg Albanians have lahuta and tosk Albanians have the polifonia these are the most wonderful emotionless musics

[@kevdeanstudios]

@@emir9064 Sandzak isn’t Albanian it’s inhabited by Muslim Serbs and Albanians

[@veljkomandic9397]

@@Christian_-mt6dd its not. Also, Albania doesn't have so that much singers with gusle as Serbia has :) its serbian instrument and most played by serbs. Goodbye 😃

[@aidacastro4066]

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve heard in a while. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@pellazgian]

My Dardanian pride I will not hide. My Pelasgian ancestors I will not disgrace. My illyrian blood flows hot and true. My Albanian people I will stand by you. Through thick and thin till the day we die, our Albanian flag WILL ALWAYS FLY HIGH

[@milanmrkic3157]

GYpsys from Africa ahahhahah

[@ivanperisic4639]

rs krasniqi why serbs have i2a haplogroup the oldest from europa and albanians have dna from north africa and kavkaz? Google is your Friend..

[@sarlaz3407]

@rs krasniqi no its because you don't even have a written language until the 1800s LOL, any Albanian that could write or read, did so in Serbian.

[@sarlaz3407]

@rs krasniqi dont drink more beer, you will lose your last brain cell.

[@sarlaz3407]

@rs krasniqi "yall dont even a brain" you must be so smart.

[@tests2816]

My grandfather played this for 60-70 yeras ago in Kosovo.

[@kappo017]

Hallah I koft

[@adonfizz315]

In Kosova

[@shqiptariidukagjinit5650]

I play this more on repeat that other songs.

[@blackpope3456]

God bless you

[@hodrimeydan7098]

Respect from Albanians of TÜRKİYE ! Shum bukur

[@shasha9393]

Qifsha rracen mongole

[@leahginet8937]

@Kristian Pepaj per me na torturu na ka torturu greku e serbi e shum e shum tjere

[@blackpope3456]

God bless you

[@ilgrandearthas6429]

@@shasha9393 Tha serbi!

[@ilgrandearthas6429]

Respect to Albanians in Turkey!

[@lostinillyria5827]

Shum e bukur! T'lumt goja. Tungjatjeta prej hoti ne malsi e madhe ❤🦅

[@halitavdiu1788]

Po të rrin mirë Emri anglisht e të folunit shqip!! Të ruejt Zoti!!

[@lostinillyria5827]

@@halitavdiu1788 faleminers o vllai im

[@hisenhasani2979]

lute, an ancient Illyrian pelasgo instrument used in battles to give morale and strength to the Illyrian soldiers, when I listen to this melody, my body tingles

[@krunoslavkovacec1842]

🇭🇷❤️🇽🇰

[@leonardometa1577]

Krenar se jam shqiptarë😍,zoti bekoft gjithë shqiptarët kudoh që jan❤️🇦🇱

[@afimhasanaj]

Famines

[@nadakrtinic2323]

This is not simply the music of Kosovo: this is only the Sqiptar music of Kosovo. Most of the music from Kosovo is Serbian, of course.

[@SalihLulaj]

I Zemra Re ktofte gjitmon I Mreti I Lahtes shqiptare. Edhe 100 Thera I Ise Elezi.

[@arsimdrmaku4626]

Ahhh Nanen e Francezve, duhet ata me permirsue gabimin UNESCO.......

[@glaukkastrioti3283]

Ne Pa i prish marrdheniet me turqit edhe mas mu marr me feja mos me tradhtu kombin per fej kurr nuk kemi me harrit

[@dion2823]

@@glaukkastrioti3283 bravo bre

[@rinordardani5603]

@@glaukkastrioti3283 Ti meso njeher te shkruash shqip te c... fmit ne djep,QAFIR M... (mas=mos,feja,fej=fe,harrit=arrit).

[@glaukkastrioti3283]

@@rinordardani5603 un ta qij gruen e ropt gjall e t vdekur po shihet patriotizmi jot per fej e efundon njerin kurse per atdhe jo ik mer byth qir se t fus n dhe persgjalli Terrorist

[@glokiglob4850]

Sa më shpejtë të jetë e mundur

[@messatsu85]

Illyricum Sacrum ☝🏻🦅🇦🇱

[@not-much-but-enough]

Šćipetari are not ilirians. Do you have to go back so far to claim some history? Don't you have anything in the last 1000 years? Any national heroes or anyone that contributed anyway in this world?

[@The3DProjects]

You speak Russian . End of story .

[@DinaricUbermensch]

@@not-much-but-enough We were mentioned in 150AD as an Illyrian tribe called "Albanoi" by Ptolemy. Don't you have anything below 300AD?

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦

[@messatsu85]

@@not-much-but-enough we are ilirian dardanian hellen Sumerian o loqe 😬😂

[@RobertBisha]

beautiful! Please listen carefully it ends and how it starts again with the voice, entering in to the sound of Lahuta. So it is sung in the most appropriate way "to be" with Lahuta. This way in Albanian is called “kushtrim”

[@yo-yo.]

Iconic! 🇦🇱

[@rifatnikqi7522]

O te lumt goja o Is muriqi je i pari ( njeshi)

[@avitiusrufinus6980]

Lahuta e Malsisë 😍❤🖤🇦🇱👐🏻

[@albanguri8016]

This is the "Eposi i Kreshnikve" (Epic Song of Braveheart Albanian Giants) with a unique local typical lute.

[@keno2285]

Incorrect translation. You Albanians are scared to correctly translate Kreshnik.

[@alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182]

@@keno2285 Zna se dobro od čega su dobili riječ "Kreshnik" "Gjetobasha Muji" itd. A taj koji malo pogleda ko su Muji, Halil i Gjergjelez bili će i znati odaklen su Albanci dobili ove pjesme

[@DARDANVS353]

@@keno2285gdesi mali cetnik ✌️

[@keno2285]

@@alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182 Od slavnih Bošnjaka…

[@Gent9292]

Lahuta is an old typical folk instrument of Albanian origin. Unesco has to re-examine the decision and acceptance. The russian descendants must not take an instrument for themselves with their lies.

[@klajdiesc6625]

Kosova’

[@keno2285]

This is Slavic instrument and the song originated from Bosnian epic 🇧🇦

[@schoenhier]

@@keno2285 "Bosnian" does not exist, you are a Muslim Serb, get over it

[@Leo-fr9tn]

Gjakprisht, ju boshnijaket s'dini ka jeni, shumica jeni shqipetart asimiluar n'sllav musliman,turp ju qofte more jshkavell musliman!@@keno2285

[@aviationfansalbania2332]

Proud always be proud

[@arrow839]

mashaAllah very beautiful, Salam Alaykum to my brothers and sisters from Kosovo. Chechen Republic of Ichkeria 🏹♥️

[@keno2285]

This song is Bosnian 🇧🇦 Albanians adopted it from us.

[@lameguduzaku3772]

@@keno2285 which bosnia haha, you don't exist, you simply muslim slav!!

[@iliriandedvukaj4022]

@@keno2285Keno kurvo. You know pretty well this song is originally from the Catholic Albanians of the Northern Mounatins and Southern Monetegro. As for your islamized serbian blood you won’t accept just learn to get used to it. Take care

[@Imthishuman]

Hahahahahah kar i vogel. You guys have no culture to be proud you are the same as serbs and croats! Till ww2. You werr divided by musliman or srbin so this also indicates that you are just converts. ​@@keno2285

[@illyrianal6681]

this istrument called “Lahuta” is older than slavs is Illyrian/Albanian instrument stolen by slavs but this istrument always crying in Albanian mountains in her home 🇦🇱 cry Lahutë🇦🇱

[@yugandali]

K Sh Why do you say stolen? "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." You should be proud others learned this from your people.

[@uneti463]

Yugan Dali agree.

[@figliodellestelle22]

@@yugandali Imitating and later claiming Lahuta as theirs.

[@mitarristanovic2299]

Instrument is Mongolian.serbs brought them in 6 century from east.just search on KZbin to see . performance is the same

[@hajdarramadanaj4269]

O be gjaki tlumt dora o bac 🇦🇱🇦🇱❤

[@pellazgian]

We are united we are great we are divine from the star 🌟 sirius sons of eagle 🦅( sons of ZEUS )

[@newreast3904]

of couuuuurse!!! it shows everyday what kinds of sons of Zeus we are. look what we do! look what we create! look how divine we behave! look how we look! man you are insane in the membrane....

[@HansBalneger]

@@newreast3904 leave these kids alone.. they live in a pseudo world.

[@Darwesh-1967]

Этот инструмент с Арабского Востока, особенно среди арабов-бедуинов, используется до сих пор.Привет Добро пожаловать

[@gjirokastra2996]

Bravo Shqipe 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@zenosama1157]

The fact that this instrument is considered serbian its hilarious and tragic at the same time.

[@ajkunamesiti1760]

Ajkuna is my name 🔥 🏔 🇦🇱 🦅 The husband of Muji whom she had 9 sons! And the legend goes that she cursed the Moon when she found out that her last son Omer was murdered and berried in a white tombstone by the father Muji! My mother was a librarian and she put me this wonderful name with Albanian Roots

[@benardkolpreci2742]

krenar qe jam shqiptar 🇽🇰🇦🇱

[@emir9064]

pershendetje vella nga sanxhaku

[@eldas481]

Shum bukur te lumt

[@uneti463]

all serbs saying lahuta is serbian ur out of ur mind! serbs dont have any folk music besides church, while all Albanian folk music is pagan and ancient. when serbs moved here on thr 6th century, Albanians were telling their stories with lahute

[@kitchenkiing]

Actually serbs migrated into Balkan around yeae 200. 3 major slavic tribes moved into europé at that time. The Venedians (West Slav)Sclavenii (Southern Slavs) Antes (East slavs) Sclavenii is the forefathers of serbians and most South slavic Peoples. Sclav became Slav and today for Albanians serbs are called Shkau Shkavi wich is also from the Word Sclav.

[@mitarristanovic2299]

Instrument is Mongolian.we all accept in Balkan and use on our way

[@blackpope3456]

Name: Gashi. Y haplogroup: Rm269(r1b). Purest albanian there is.

[@kevdeanstudios]

Yes not like ev13 that’s not Albanian group

[@pena1197]

@@kevdeanstudios EV13 is the real Illyrian haplogroup, its the first haplogroup that entered in the balkans around 8,000 years ago.

[@alleshi5]

Bravo Bac

[@lionheart5418]

,,Slavic played gusle (lahuta) because they didn’t have any brass instruments. When they sing howl like wolfs”🇷🇸🇲🇪🐺 Teofil Simokata 590

[@slloza]

Mrš bre majmune

[@glokiglob4850]

😂😂😂 🤦🏻‍♂️👉🏻🌮

[@silvanobertolini5089]

È più lineare e naturale la musica quando suonato dai Dardani/Arbani. Questo instrumento è uno delle Tante novità portate dalla Campagna Militare di Alessandro Magno in Europa, come ad esempio la gallina di cui cito avere un'origine Indo-Medio Orientale già allevato allora dai Parsi.

[@frammentidibabele3141]

Credo sia piu anticp di alessandro magno lavda (lauda) lodi, anche in latino esisye come termine, venivano cantate le lodi degli eroi, ercole iliade odisea

[@silvanobertolini5089]

@@frammentidibabele3141 I latini la chiamavano Lyra... solo che quello usato dal popolo della Stella ha un suono più grezzo ovvero una sinfonia dritta dall'Europa Preistorica... Non dimentichiamo che ogni continente detiene il proprio popolo indigeno quello Albanese rappresenta nobilmente un'esempio Europeo!

[@slloza]

🙏🙏🙏

[@TanTan-rf1gu]

Halil's Wedding (in Albanian: "Martesa e Halilit") is not Epic of Kosovo, but it's an Albanian Epic Song! To be more accurate, this is one of the Kreshnik's Epic Songs (in Albanian: Eposi i Kreshnikëve). So, before you put a video on KZbin, do your homework!

[@klmsps5576]

it’s Albanian epic of Albanian highlanders who live in Albania and Kosovo. It belongs to Kosovo as much as it doest to Albania. Your comment is ignorant. The legend of Muji and Halili is taught generation to generation in Kosovo

[@TanTan-rf1gu]

@@klmsps5576, ignorant is your comment because you don't understand the difference between "Epic of Kosovo" and "Albanian Epic Songs". Saying this is Epic of Kosovo means these are exclussive songs of Kosovo. But saying these are Albanian Epic Songs include Albania as well as Kosovo. Besides, in Kosovo the Epic Songs of the Kreshniks went extinct, because they were forgotten due to the Yugoslav regime which didn't allow those songs! In Kosovo people came in touch with these songs after the Yugoslav regime allowed cultural exchange between Albania and Kosovo. I know people of the Albanian Music Ensamble who went to Kosovo and told me exactly this. So don't tell me fairy tales.

[@HansBalneger]

@@TanTan-rf1gu The kreshnik songs were sang at every wedding in Kosovo. Even during the Yu days.

[@TanTan-rf1gu]

@@HansBalneger, my friend, I'm Albanian and I know the rality. Above all, I studied the Albanian Epic Songs, their origin, their geographic spread and so on. There may have been someone here and there, who knew the songs of the Kreshniks, but not the broad mass of the population in Kosovo. As I said above, I have friends who have been part of the Ansambli Shtetror i Këngëve dhe Valleve and they had exchange programs with Kosovo. When they went to Kosovo, sports halls and theaters were filled with spectators. But the Albanian Epic Songs were not known at all by the viewers. In Albania, for example, in contrast to Kosovo, the songs of the Kreshniks were taught in school, not only the songs but also the poetry and the mythology. All this was part of the Albanian language class. Mos ma merr për ters, nuk e kam për të keqe dhe as për desinformim, por thjeshtë disa gjëra duhen thënë ashtu siç janë. Kalofsh mirë.

[@klajdiesc6625]

Its from kosova you STUPIDDDDDD

[@artistic_balkan.collection]

Dragon song

[@keno2285]

Mujo Hrnjica ⚜️🇧🇦🐉🐉🐉 Ale Đerzelez🐉🐉🐉

[@kevdeanstudios]

Gusle Is the best ❤️🇲🇪🇷🇸🇦🇱

[@montegringo1112]

Svaka cast braci Albancima.

[@tonikelmendi6812]

Lahuta*🇦🇱🇽🇰🇲🇰

[@arrabona916]

No one likes Serb apologists like you! We will never be your brothers! Us Malesor Albanians have no genetic connection with you guys! Check DNA base and shows how we have NO I OR R1A, BUT STILL TRYNA CALL US ALBANIZED SERBS HAHAHAHAHA

[@mitarristanovic2299]

Ono Sto sam procitao po internetu da su Srbi doneli Gusle u 6 veku sa istoka od Mongola koji isto dan danas koriste instrument

[@mixbic6143]

@@arrabona916 thank God we don't have connection with such an idiot like you.

[@gentiantafa4619]

knôh e t'konft zemra 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@alfamuzjaksakitomiznadpros5182]

Basically just a remade Epic Bosniak Song. The Hrnjica brothers (Mujo, Halil and Omer) are actual people that were recorded as Hajduks in Velika Kladuša, in the Krajina region of Bosnia in the 17th century. Same thing applies for Gjerg Elez Alia. Which is based on a Ottoman Bey that died in Bosnia. Epic songs about him emerged in the end of the 15th century again in the Krajina region in Bosnia. Which were later transmitted by mutlilingual guslars (lahutare) to Albanian.

[@bjerliu1979]

Welcome to Iliricum Island 🇽🇰⚜️🇦🇱💀☦️✝️☪️ autochthon!

[@gazmendnika6242]

Istument Për Vajtime😢

[@schoenhier]

To those debating here, that these folk epics are Bosnian or Serb or whatever other slavic background it has. Let's step back for 1 second from your political (hostile) view. Let's take some historical ground facts. I quote from the book Kosovo A Short History (Sir Noel Malcolm, professor for history at Oxford - we can agree that it's one of the best universities in the world): "No ethnic groups in the Balkans ever lived in completely watertight compartments; there has been assimilation in almost every direction...." later he states: "...in nearby areas such as the Sandzak the Slavicization of Albanians continued well into the twentieth century. Some of the bilingual singers of folk epics recorded there by Albert Lord and Milman Parry in the 1930s came from villages, or families, which had once been Albanian but were now mainly Slav-speaking" (page 197). This song is 100% Albanian, you can believe it or not, it won't change the history. Nor does any Albanian here want you to believe it. Because it's a historical fact. It doesn't make Bosnian or Serbia culture worse, it doesn't attack them, it doesn't do anything to it, besides claiming this instrument and the epic folk songs as theirs - which they are. Yet still there are for sure also really well playing gusle artists or beautiful singing Serbs or Bosnian. It doesn't mean that one culture is better than the other, because it's simply not true. Peace won't be upon the Balkans if people fight even about stuff like this, as if their life depends on it. Sit back and enjoy this old guy playing and singing for god's sake.

[@compteperso5154]

🇽🇰👐🏼🇦🇱

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦⚜️🐉

[@jamilire9747]

Mrekulli!❤❤❤🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@enverkarabegovic4017]

Mujo i Halil Hrnjica

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🐉🐉🐉🐉

[@futurealbania5098]

Duhet te jesh shqiptar qe ta ndjesh kete instrument hyjnor qe therret engjejt

[@skitotrachia3361]

Epic battle of kosovo - halils wedding...

[@keno2285]

The battle took place in west Bosnia.

[@inaina5189]

🇦🇱🙏🏻🇦🇱

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦⚜️🐉

[@fllutzx1943]

🇦🇱🇽🇰🙌🏻

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦⚜️🐉🩸❤️

[@desist3759]

🇦🇱❤

[@keno2285]

🇧🇦🐉⚜️❤️🩸

[@onestrike]

Zemra t`knoft oh Migj!

[@Emir.adini3]

Is this hawraman or balkan? This dont look european

[@monsieurlemon]

same looking

[@stamenko1506]

Bro youre singing it without energy! Look up how the SERBS USE THE GUSLA SHQIPTARS. Stop raping our intruments.

[@user-nv3om4wx2x]

That instrument is gusle( traditional Serbian instrument) . Kosovo Is Serbia!🇷🇸☦️

[@pendu6378]

So what? How is this relevant to this song Subhuman we are rent free in ur heads

[@pendu6378]

Also christianity is fake lol

[@mirsad7]

Beautiful that even in albanian the story of the krajina bosniak heroes mujo and halil hrnjica are sung. Inate bosnjak

[@urmom-wz7wd]

No this has nothing to do with any of what u just mentioned, this folk legend is actually sung before any of you slavs came here into the balkans

[@urmom-wz7wd]

The names of the characters were changed in ottoman times though

[@ivanperisic4639]

oh man oh man die Slawen kamen nicht auf den Balkan. Die Serben haben die älteste europäische Haplogruppe i2a. In Bosnien, Kroatien, Serbien ist sie am höchsten von der Konzentration her. Albaner haben überwiegend Haplogruppen aus Nordafrika und Asien. So ca 7% der Albaner sind albanisierte Serben die auch eine i2a Haplogruppe tragen. Die Illyrer wurden als gross und stark beschrieben. Albaner sind bekannt als kleine Männer ähnlich wie Griechen oder Italiener. Euer Durchschnitt liegt bei 1.74. Serbien hat einen Durchschnitt von 182, Montenegro sogar 183. Allgemein lässt sich feststellen in den Ländern wo die i2a Gruppe am stärksten ist sind die grössten Männer - das ist die wahre illyrische Gene. Beschäftige dich mal mit der Vinča Kultur und dem lepenski Vir. Die Albaner konnten sich früher kaum untereinander verstehen, viele Albaner aus zB Mazedonien werden dieses Instrument hier gar nicht kennen. Eure Sprache musste ein Kroate als erster in Buchform rausbringen. Die Albaner führten jahrelang Kriege untereinander, alle grossen Stämme aus dem norden Albaniens (Hoti, Krasniqi, Kuci, Kelmendi etc) hatten Krieg untereinander. Als sie dann von den Osmanen in den Kosovo gebracht wurden haben sie sich dort vertragen. In Albanien gibt es ja bis heute noch Blutrachen und Feindschaften unter gewissen Familien. Daran sieht man auch das es sich nie um ein Volk gehandelt hat bei den Albanern. Wenn ihr Illyrer seid wie kommt es dann das ihr Haplogruppen aus Nord Afrika und dem Kaukasus habt? Ich mein schau mal wie weit weg NordAfrika vom Kaukasus ist. Wie wollt ihr Autothon sein? Unmöglich! Übrigens noch als letztes die Theorie mit den Illyrer hatten die Slowenen und Kroaten schon Anfang 20 Jahrhundert - politisch motiviert, es ging um Grenzen. Da habt ihr Albaner noch nichtmal davon gehört gehabt bei euch musste Enver Hoxha kommen und ein Nationalbewusstsein erschaffen. Danach kamen auch erst die ganzen illyrischen Namen bei euch auf - davor gab es die nicht. Schau mal Wikipedia nach zB bekannte Albaner mit dem Namen Ilir, kein einziger vor 1950. Alles Propaganda von Hoxha um euch ein Nationalgefühl zu geben davor habt ihr euch selbst bekriegt in Stämmen und wart das Land in Europa mit der höchsten Analphabetenquote! Fakt!

[@urmom-wz7wd]

@@ivanperisic4639 was laberst du 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ivanperisic4639]

@@urmom-wz7wd Gib mir antworten oder lass es bleiben. War klar das so eine kindische Antwort kommt, etwas anderes war nicht zu erwarten.

[@misha2850]

ዘለሰኛ ነው?

[@Maksi-kit]

Jesu vas turci amaestrirali fino

[@nikizelen5878]

Lahuta isn't even an original Albanian word. Anyone with a bit of common sense can clearly see that it's the loanword meaning lute, probably from some older form of Italian. On the other hand, the Slavs from Western Balkans have their own original word for it - gusle. I won't go into who was here first and such stuff, but if it was originally an Albanian instrument, you would presume that they would have their native name for it, and not name it after some foreign instrument, that doesn't even look or work alike.

[@keno2285]

Respect for the comment, just like Ciftelija is a loanword. My theory is Lahuta is from Oud/Ut, Middle Eastern instrument. It is also possible it is from Italian since 40% of the Albanian language is from Latin.

[@dios1ish868]

Why would only Highlander north Albanians take the word from Italians and the instrument and not southern Albanians? This instrument has been played since antiquity in our parts.

[@keno2285]

@@dios1ish868 Because the Ghegs are the ones who adopted the instrument from Slavs not Tosks. The Albanians call it oud because of their latin influence.

[@dios1ish868]

@@keno2285 The person was saying that it was adopted from Italians, Lute. This was exclusively an instrument played by native highlanders of the northern Balkans. It was the other way around, when Slavs showed up in the Balkans they also adopted or because of the Natives, like Iliro/Thraco/Arber who became Slavicized made these instruments and even some of the costumes we see similarities to north Albanians part of what became the South Slav nations. Not to mention that the DNA studies shows that of the Slavicized(linguistically) natives who do not belong to the Slavic DNA group, but prior to that which corresponds with that of Albanians.

[@nikizelen5878]

I never said that albanians took the instrument from the Italians, just the name. Again, I'm not arguing about who was here first, just the origin of gusle. Gusle are continuously present in all of the slavic tribes of west balkans, except slovenia, and only the most pannonian parts of croatia, which means in bosnia, herzegovina, dalmatia, all parts of serbia, etc. If it was really originally an albanian instrument, someone would presume that it would be spread in at least in more than a half of albania

[@brankopetrus1996]

Kosovo eshte zemra e Serbish 🇷🇸❤️😁

[@zenosama1157]

Feels amazing seeing a serbian crying in albanian 😂❤

[@asmirpacavar3613]

The folklore song is originally Bosnian 🇧🇦 because Halil and Mujo Hrnjica (the two Brothers in this song) were Bosnian origin but also Albanians sing this song because Albanians and Bosniaks are Brothers ⚜️🇧🇦⚜️🇦🇱⚜️🇽🇰⚜️ ALLAHU EKBER

[@donibrasko4915]

Mujo und Halil albanian story

[@mirsad7]

@@donibrasko4915 nope. Krajina region, of which these songs speak are in western Bosnia. There was never a frontier region in Albania. Study some ottoman and austro Hungarian history

[@roeloberberi572]

The tale of those brothers is older than your slave history...

[@MKokalari]

The bards used to sing songs that certain cultures related to. Salih Ugljanin was an Albanian bard that sang in Serbo Croatian and he was married to a Bosnian woman. It is likely that those songs were transferred to the Albanian epos.

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

What Allauh Akbar. Fuck Allah, We have just one Zot that unites us. 🇦🇱☦️☪️✝️

[@jaksa05]

🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸BIGGEST BROTHERS

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

Nah,similar but nah not brothers

[@alexvelika9990]

Srpske gusle. Ja sam katolik i gusle potice od starih srba kosova i crne gore.

[@whatever2206]

“The Wedding of a Smailagić Meho” from a Bosniak guslar Avdo Međedović solved the Homer’s question in the Balkans.

[@amaranthine90]

Sandzak historically had a large Albanian population, many people in eastern Sandzak are of Albanian origin. The majority of these songs were recorded on paper by Albanian friars Bernardin Palaj nd Shtjefën Gjecovi, furthermore they're both in the Balkans, so its not surprising there is overlap. There are some folk tales that exist in every culture. If you were able to or took the time, you would see the Albanian version has some differences. First, that Gjeto is Muj's original name the way Gjergj Elez Alia (Alia Dzerdzelez) name is Gjergj, not Đorđe, Second, presence of sworn virgins, 3rd. Many other plot differences.

[@keno2285]

⁠​⁠@@amaranthine90 These songs originate from Bosniak epic…there’s no shame in admitting that. Kreshnik is proto Slavic from Bosnian Krajišnik a frontier man / warrior / hero. Gjeto also wasn’t his name, gjeto originates from Bosnian Četa/Četo. Četo-baša meaning leader of the soldiers. Mujo is the Bosnian shortening of Mustafa and Ale Đerzelez was a totally different person…from east Bosnia. Ottoman documentation’s prove where these men were from.

[@mv2442]

Gusle the only Serbian instrument, oldest instrument still in use.

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

Serbian?Just Serbian?I dont think so

[@dikushnukenjeh9072]

This is an Illyrian ancient instrument. Besides Albanians, Serbians have it because they are partly Illyrian (genetics wise). The autochthonous popople in the lands of present-day Serbia lost the language to the slavic occupier in 7th-8th centuries, but didn't lose all their customs, this being one of them. Albanians preserved Illyrian language and customs.They

[@mv2442]

@@dikushnukenjeh9072 COPE

[@floriankociu7251]

Sorbian 😂😂 Slavic race from Ural Mountains 🤣🤣🤥🤥

[@shaclo1512]

Oldest for Serbs, because they came late from Russia to Balkan, but Albanians had it long before

[@user-di5rm9ee1p]

ahahahahaaaaa

[@arian4555]

Its defently not serbian If you think that

[@user-di5rm9ee1p]

@@arian4555 Shut up abdul.

[@dusankamilenkovic9920]

Kosova është zemra e Serbisë!!!!

[@remington1824]

Kurse ti je zemra e karit tem

[@micsokoli4207]

Ja rrofsh bolet kosoves

[@eneashini9911]

Ta qifsha ate nene dhe krejt farefisin gjall e vdekmit

[@silvanobertolini5089]

Kujdes oh shkji poshter! Kosovo quhet Dardhani. Dardhania eshte Troj te Tokave Yllhyr ose te ashtuquajtur Shqyptar.

[@albinh.3149]

Ewww dont make these kind of bad jokes with this old language -From the Rep. of *Kosova XK*

[@user-ol7yi4lk5t]

Kosovo is Serbia

[@DinaricUbermensch]

Kos in Albanian means yogurt, so it's albanian land

[@user-ol7yi4lk5t]

@@DinaricUbermensch haaahahagagaaagahahhahahahhhhahahahahhhah

[@DinaricUbermensch]

@@user-ol7yi4lk5t Also you destroyed so many albanian mosques there to claim the land, because we were in the balkans first and that is a threat to you because you have no history here and only dates back to 800AD and nothing below because you were still cavemen in russian caves. meanwhile we are illyrians and date back to 150AD as an Illyrian tribe called "Albanoi" as mentioned by Ptolemy and we speak a distinct language unlike your language which is just a dialect of russian.

[@armanto8271]

Tell me why does gusle and gusica sound so similar sestro?

[@user-ol7yi4lk5t]

@@DinaricUbermensch hajahhhaahhhahhahaaaahahhha

[@tschetnikboss3011]

Turko Gypsy singing with a Serbian instrument about his turkish father

[@enzoboss9404]

TschetnikBoss fucking liar 🤥

[@spicyishot5020]

There is much evidence that albanian people have been in the Balkans since antiquity. But didnt serbs migrate their later? Exactly.

[@juqivarracatok6180]

If turks are our fathers mongols are your fathers

[@mustafatouati2032]

@Никшићко Тамно God bless you.

[@kusarii118]

Zoti tpruft veti vllavi jam

[@serbianpatriot4197]

(Gusle) Serbian instrument

[@jonac1144]

Gusle(slavic propaganda) this song is older than your country boy😂

[@osamiremeqeneshqiptare8222]

@Walton Bate 🤣🤣🤣🤣 mir ja bane he ropt atij hee

[@DinaricUbermensch]

(Lahuta) Albanian instrument that serbs stole becuz they have no history

[@Berane01]

Gusle su Srpski instrument 🇷🇸

[@piet95]

wtf?? your people copy always from albanian anything cause you dont have history in balkan. 🤭🤭🤭

[@Berane01]

@@piet95 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZ7PhWWrq52YY9k

[@Berane01]

@@piet95 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHa9qWaqj9yli9U

[@piet95]

@@Berane01 i know you steal all albanian culture man.

[@piet95]

@@Berane01 it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusla wikipedia says:

[@user-xd3bw2kw9v]

This Is gusle, Serbian instrument...

[@govalinho1896]

Dont steal history lil sllav

[@user-xd3bw2kw9v]

@Malësor_ Dukagjinit HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHHHAHHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAAHHAHQHAHQHQHQQJQHHAAHAHHHHAHAH

[@mitrocity7750]

@@user-xd3bw2kw9v Lahuta, dont steel our instrument like as you do with our land.

[@user-xd3bw2kw9v]

@@mitrocity7750 😂

[@DinaricUbermensch]

@@user-xd3bw2kw9v Albanian instrument.

[@shroudidegasic5740]

Kosovo je srce Srbije i gusle su Srpske🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@Someone-jz5pl]

Go back to caucasus russian.

[@Berane01]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHa9qWaqj9yli9U

[@shroudidegasic5740]

@@Berane01 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Someone-jz5pl]

@@Berane01 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2m4gXZrg6eSec0 :)

[@fcsfcs1949]

Kari im esht serbi mi merni dhe bolet mos mi leni jasht

[@Kreativnikanal92]

Mongolian hehe

[@user-__BOJAN__]

This is Serbian instrument GUSLE

[@VukalGames]

Ово су гусле. Српски традиционални инструмент, а ви Арбанаси можете да нам подувате карину. Живела Србија!!! 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

[@VukalGames]

@@laerti89 Them deleting my comments in Serbian only proves how fucked up nation you guys are.

[@VukalGames]

@@laerti89 we'll see about that loser part

[@lypcizhenaf8988]

Claiming instruments is retarded, everyone has similar instruments, Lahuta/gusle originates from Ethiopia and Syria. Also what’s so wrong if an Albanians plays it? Is it illegal or something? I have one at home, am I committing a crime by playing it?

[@eneashini9911]

Pidhi satam

[@TRBs20_]

This is a bosniak song stole by albanians

[@slloza]

Bosans didn’t exist when we play LAHUTA “ hup ti qifsha ropt “

[@TRBs20_]

@@slloza they exist, older than albanians

[@herodot7652]

Gusle are Serbian,recognised by UNESCO,and Kosovo is not recognised as a country by the UN nor by the Serbian constitution 😂😂😂

[@herodot7652]

genta It is recognized as a Serbian instrument LOL!

[@rickastley5321]

@@herodot7652 is not , is regnocized as a balkanic instrument in the unesco it was played by serbs

[@tzvetkov4784]

Oh dear those Goranci, albanized Serbs, using Serbian traditions, instruments and have even still Serbian surnames like Ullakoviç, Krasniqi etc. You call this piece Kreshnike? Kreshnik is a used name amongst albanized Serbs in Kosovo Metohija and nowadays northern Albania, which was totally Serbian, before the Ottoman occupation. Kreshnik comes from Serbian „Krajeshnik“, the stem „Kraj“ means border and the suffix -nik is a Serbian, in general a Slavic suffix. Krajeshnik means frontiersman, those who fought against the Ottomans, before they got finally islamized and later therefore easier albanized, since the Albanians cooperated with the Ottomans and changed their religion, to gain other lands and other benefits as albanizing their neighbours. Kreshnik is a Serbian name and the instrument called Gusle, in Albanian they just took over a new name from Latin, Lauta, ot described this Serbian insgrument. The way this piece is played, is from Serbian Gusle epic play art, of the so called Kosovo cycle of Serbian poetry. This is Serbian and has nothing to do with Albania.

[@The3DProjects]

DNA placed you in Russia . Shush

[@pendu6378]

Why tf would u write all of this Get a life

[@elionryshs7046]

Bro is schizophrenic

[@tzvetkov4784]

@@elionryshs7046 Sis is a hypocrite.

[@DjordjeDjuricSRB]

kosovo is Serbia

[@MKokalari]

Kosovo is Dardania

[@imperatoralbanie7668]

Whole Europe is Greek and Roman then. Wtf is this ideology?

[@dzony185]

Ahahhahahahahahhaha Pa je l ima neki materijalni dokaz vašeg postojanja u srednjem veku bilo gde u Albaniji a i na Kosovu i Metohiji ? Sve do Drača je bila srpska država koju ćemo povratiti kad tad , zapamtite to !

[@albakos2559]

Ajde bre nazad na Sibir

[@18IMAMGODINA]

Nice , Serbian national outfit , serbian national instrument but the language wrong , bravo to you.

[@skapiOFFICIAL]

You are wrong. We are an autotonic people with this dress and this music, but the bad luck was that we were invaded by you and you tried to steal our history and destroy us, but no, because we are Ilir Pellazg and Dardan or Arbëri you can call as you like, but Albanians are known all over the world.

[@rickastley5321]

Tell me how is it serbian ?

[@18IMAMGODINA]

Well youtube wont let me post pictures in comments , google Jovan Babunski , komite , cetnici makedonija.

[@18IMAMGODINA]

@@skapiOFFICIAL In 19th century if i were to ask a shqiptar if he knew the difference between arnaut , arbanas and albanez he would tell me he doesent know he is shqipetar . You dont have any basis for any claims you say about any history all your "Illyrian" shoutouts are nothing more then shoutouts . You dont even know that the name Illyricum is just a geographical term that was named by romans , not by you , the "Illyrians" never called themselves that.

[@18IMAMGODINA]

And we didnt invade you , as a matter of fact genetic studies show that about 40% of Serbs , Croats , Bosnians share the same genetic code as the people who lived here 12000 BC , so you can go fuck yourself with your "you stole our history " bullshit.

[@vucicavukanovic9210]

This is good ancient Balkan music. Gusle is beautiful instrument! But why is the song about turk Halil? It is Turkish name, and also Mujo/Muji is nickname of Arab name Mustafa.

[@sejdibardhoshi6193]

Halil in this song is not turkish !! This myth is about "Eposisi i Kreshnikeve" (I don't how to say it in english ) ! The main characters in this story is Mujo and Halil ! They are brothers ! This myth is all know to all albanian native land (Illyrian) From Danub river north to Prevez south to adriatic sea and ionian sea in west to morava river east !

[@udhetari9698]

Sejdi Bardhoshi I thoji ketij trimit se lahuta ka kenge te eposit qysh nga luftrat iliro-sllave ne vitet 700-800 qe kendohet edhe ne ne ditet e sotme

[@lapapala6152]

Haha "albanian native land from Danub river"... Your whole history is a myth and a lie my friend. Cheers from Sweden

[@kristianzefi8683]

Those songs are from the Ottoman Period...and that's the reason that some people have muslim names. But "Eposi i kreshnikeve" is a collection of old songs that were always singed with the lahuta (lavda- lavdi) and some song are datet since the slavic invasion dated in 700-800 d.C.

[@KingKong948]

Go back to mother Russia you slavo-inbred piece of shit. Your daddy is turkish.

[@skrajina8037]

Hahahahah siptari pjevaju o Srpskom ciklusu hhaahahaahahahah pa IMATE LI ISTA SVOJE

[@skrajina8037]

@Rijad Emrulai HAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@skrajina8037]

@Rijad Emrulai HAHAHHAAHHAHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAH SHIPO MOJ MALIIIII HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAH

[@jaksa05]

Pa to su braća tvoja Albanci nemoj mržnju medju braćom sejati 🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@armanto8271]

Gusle and gusica same thing sestro😉

[@srnagovorcin3413]

Hahahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[@MimikMaya]

Sta bre

[@ilirikumserbinum-1327]

Very funny to see how they steal our identity claiming to be illyrian 😂 but have something Arabic on his had 🤣

[@erdhapashfitova]

I love how serbs watch our albanian related videos and comment them like they have nothing better to do like you scumbag

[@Alb0z32]

Its just a head wrap. And i love how you hate us and arabs, as you are supposedly great. If i was a serb i wouldve fucking commited suicide. You know what they say:"a good serb is a dead one"

[@albinh.3149]

Very funny how serbs claim being something important in history, even tho they are russian immigrants xD

[@Alb0z32]

@@albinh.3149 xD

[@ilirikumserbinum-1327]

@@albinh.3149 Russian immigrants? How when Serbs are 100% autochtone in the balkans. U Albanians (Sqipetarians) believe in something which is absolutely not true believing to be "Illyrian" while the world knows that the Albanians camed to the balkans in the 11th century AD. Read Mikhail Ataliotis a witness who lived in that time and saw how the Albanians camed. Or read Pope Aenea Silvio Piccolomini from the 14th century he wrote about the Albanians and he said in his book that the Albanian Language is unintelligible for the Greeks and for the ILLYRIANS(Serbs). Go see what todays genetics have to say about Serbian DNA and Albanian DNA and everything wil be clear. Albanians are absolutely not illyrians. But a Caucasian tribe who escaped from there becouse of the war in the 7th century between the Arabs and the Khazars. KOSOVO IS SERBIA

[@ukleti.v1284]

This insrtument is Gusle, serbian national inatrument older then all albanians

[@ukleti.v1284]

@PEPAJ hahahahhhahahaahahahah tell me another joke bro

[@ukleti.v1284]

@PEPAJ ok, probably Albanian version of this instrument

[@uneti463]

Marko Bralee 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ukleti.v1284]

@rs krasniqi AHAHAHAHAH tell me another joke maybe if u can better

[@arberoshi2003]

@@ukleti.v1284 obviously you don't have any clue about the Balkan history..Serbs were originally from North Persia, the traditional folk costume is the same. Then they moved to the karpats and got banished by Russia. After that they moved to Europe as a part of them settled in north east Germany which is called sorbian and the other part settled dow in the balkan in the 700s. At that time illyrians were on the balkan since many thousands of years

[@matejaadamovic7498]

Serbian Instrument

[@milanbascarevic4082]

You are stealers this is Serbian instrument called Gusle, when you dont have your history you must steal our shame on you

[@HansBalneger]

This instrument is also played by arabs, persians, tatars and anatolian greeks so to who does it really belong?

[@theillyrianking4261]

This is an original albanian instrument, this song is extremly old and based on the writings this song has been always played with this instrument(Lahutè) and one of the oldest books in albanians history mentions this albanian instrument. DON'T TALK WITHOUT FACTS, HATE IS SOMETHING ELSE, KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF.

[@pavlekovacevic5787]

@@theillyrianking4261 albanians only exist for 100 years XD

[@theillyrianking4261]

@@pavlekovacevic5787 Oh really? Have you ever heard of Skanderbeg? Even earlier from that, have you ever heard of Illyria? Learn some history before talking!

[@MKokalari]

Gusla sounds like a screeching owl. This is pure art.

[@RapsodiSamiPeci]

Respekt, ju lutemi Abonohuni edhe Ju tek une në kanalin tim në KZbin, Flm shumë..