gusle

Updated: May 24, 2025

He described that when the news of the murders arrived three hundred Bosnian students rushed through Belgrade shouting and singing, and led by a Montenegrin playing the gusle. "But did not the police stop them?" I asked. "No, why should they?" "And were no arrests then made?" "Oh, no." He replies that up till now the police have not occupied themselves with the affair."

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle

This term was, however, not fulfilled and the sturdy old savage remained in Montenegro till the day of his death, steadily opposing all western and modern ideas, especially the making of a carriage road into the country; and ever composing and singing to the gusle songs of battle and border fray, which, though devoid of literary merit, give an invaluable picture of the savagery of the land in the middle of the nineteenth century.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle