page_title: The Building of Skadar
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: The Building of Skadar / Plot
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo taken by photographer Talha Çakır in Albenia
context_page_description: The Building of Skadar or The Walling of the Skadar or The Founding of Skadar is a poem of the pre-Kosovo cycle of Serbian epic poetry. It is based on the motif of human sacrifice.
context_section_description: The song describes the building of a fortress on the Bojana river at Skadar by the Mrnjavčević brothers (Vukašin, Uglješa and Gojko Mrnjavčević). Gojko had to wall up his young wife alive within the walls of the fortress as a sacrifice demanded by the mountain vila (a  fairy similar to a nymph, in Slavic mythology). According to Vuk Karadžić, there was a belief at this time that it was impossible to build a large building without a human sacrifice. Vuk claims that people even avoided the building sites because they were afraid their shadow could be walled-up and they could die without it.
caption: The castle in Shkodër (Skadar) and Bojana river
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