Excerpt from The Ballads of Marko Kraljevic Kacic made such skilful use of his themes, his additions and alterations were made with such easy mastery of traditional epithet and formula, that the South Slavs themselves overlooked the signs of modern treatment and accepted the book as a genuine record of the past. Numerous manuscript copies were made, certain pieces found their way into the rustic repertory, so that peasants and countrymen sang songs from Kacic' in the fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.