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  • They have no liking for songs of love, but say that men should only listen to the guslar and to hero-songs.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Montenegro that performers on the one-stringed, monotonous guslar can most easily find an audience.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Most of the Serbs acknowledge that their monasteries in the Voivodina, as elsewhere, are not under present conditions as meritorious as in the Middle Ages when the people from twenty or thirty villages would meet there and listen to the blind guslar-player.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • Peasants who sing fragments of it as they toil in the fields, and the minstrel, the guslar, who chants it for them of an evening, believe that it is, like their folk-songs, the anonymous production of the Serbian people.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • a _guslar_, or minstrel, as they call them in Croatia.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

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