- Veda Slovena
Veda Slovena (Веда Словена in
Modern Bulgarian , originally written as Веда Словенахъ) is a collection of folk songs and legends of theMuslim Bulgarians ; the subtitle of the book indicated that they were collected from the regions ofThrace and Macedonia (see image right). The first volume of which was printed in 1874 inBelgrade and the second 1881 inSaint Petersburg under the authorship ofBosnian Serb Stefan Verković . The collection was assembled byBulgaria n teacherIvan Gologanov for 12 years and is famous for containing numerous elements of ancientSlavic mythology notwithstanding the conversions first toChristianity and then toIslam .Veda Slovena has been alleged to have been partly or fully forged by Gologanov ever since its publication, dividing scholarly circles into two groups, the one considering the texts to be forged, the other defending their genuineness. Recently editions like "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia" ["Българска енциклопедия. Електронно издание." Българска академия на науките, С. 2002] consider Veda Slovena to be a
mystification .References
External links
* [http://ziezi.net/veda1 Full text of Veda Slovena] (in dialectal Bulgarian and Cyrillic)
* [http://www.omda.bg/engl/history/mistificacia.html The Veda Slovena mystery]
* [http://www.bultreebank.org/veda/lingvbg.htm Lexical analysis of Veda Slovena]
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