Page "Gusle" Paragraph 19

The gusle has played a significant role in the history of Serbian epic poetry because of its association with the centuries old patriotic oral legacy.

Most of the epics are about the era of the Ottoman occupation and the struggle for the liberation from it.

With the efforts of ethnographer Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, many of these epics have been collected and published in books in the first half of the 19th century.