Characters
Some heroes are paired with their horses:
- Voivod Momchil - Jabučilo, a winged horse
- Prince Marko - Šarac
- Banović Strahinja - Đogin
- Miloš Obilić - Ždralin
- Damjan Jugović - Zelenko
- Hajduk Veljko - Kušlja
- Jovan Kursula - Strina
Rest of them include:
- Pavle Orlović
- Milan Toplica
Popular legendary heroes of Serbian epic poetry who are depicted as enemies of Kraljević Marko are based upon historical persons:
- Musa Kesedžija - he is the result of merging several historical people including Musa Çelebi son of Bayezid I and Musa from the Muzaka Albanian noble family while Jovan Tomić thinks he is based on the supporter of Jegen Osman Pasha
- Djemo the Mountaineer - a member of Muzaka noble family from Albania (Gjin Muzaka) or maybe Ottoman military person Jegen Osman Pasha
- General Vuča - Tanush Dukagjin, a member of Dukagjini noble family from Albania or Prince Eugene of Savoy or Peter Doci
- Philip the Magyar - Pipo of Ozora, an Italian condottiero, general, strategist and confidant of King Sigismund of Hungary.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“Waxed-fleshed out-patients
Still vague from accidents,
And characters in long coats
Deep in the litter-baskets
All dodging the toad work
By being stupid or weak.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“His leanings were strictly lyrical, descriptions of nature and emotions came to him with surprising facility, but on the other hand he had a lot of trouble with routine items, such as, for instance, the opening and closing of doors, or shaking hands when there were numerous characters in a room, and one person or two persons saluted many people.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has “never had a chance, poor devil,” you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
—Margot Asquith (1864–1945)