Stevo Vasojević
Stevo Vasojević or Vasojević Stevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Васојевић Стево), is a character in the Kosovo Cycle of Serbian epic poetry and a legendary ancestor of the Vasojevići tribe, the largest tribe in the Montenegrin Highlands. According to the epics (such as Pogibija Pavla Orlovića i Steva Vasojevića na Kosovu), he was a nobleman who fought and died at the Battle of Kosovo (1389).
It is known that
Ottoman
occyping forces in Kosovo after the battle and died a heroic death. This particular plot is often used as a theme in Serbian epic poetry, only differing
in the name of the characters, thus leading to the confusion of Stevo Vasojević with the historical Prince Lazar, who is also a "Late knight" protagonist as Musić Stevan in the poetical interpretations of this theme in the region of North Kosovo, where historical Musić had his feudal estates. Although the song version about Musić Stefan is today generally better known and more popular, the song and legends about Vasojević Stevo are historically older. After the battle and Stevo's death, his descendants, the Vasojevići, as uskoks turned for Herzegovina and came to Foča, and from there turned to the south, southeast and east, and across Montenegro arrived at Nožice in Lijeva Rijeka, where they settled.[2]
References
- ^ "Vasojeviće i Vasojevići" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 25, 2012.
- ^ Ilija M. Jelić (January 1999). "Ko Ne Bude Oldžija, Da Bude Nadondžija".