{27} An extensive plain near the Narenta, in Herzegovina, on which is a village of the same name. {28} I pay cheerful homage to the poetical beauties of the translation of this ballad in “The Servian Minstrelsy,” quoted in the Quarterly Review, No. LXIX. p. 71. The tasteful author has no doubt greatly embellished the original; but the words in italics are not to be found there. Stately was she, as the _mountain_ pine tree; White and rosy-colour _intermingled_ Were her cheeks, as _she had kiss’d_ the dawning; _Dark and flashing_, like two noble jewels, Were her eyes; _and over them were_ eyebrows, _Thin and black_, like leeches _from the fountain_; _Dark the lashes too_; _although the_ ringlets _Hung above_ in clusters _rich and golden_. _Softer_ were her eyelids _than_ the pinions Of the swallow _on the breeze reposing_; Sweeter were the maiden’s lips _than_ honey; _White_ her teeth, as pearls _in ocean ripen’d_; White her breasts, two little _panting_ wild doves; _Soft_ her speaking, as the wild dove’s murmur; _Bright_ her smiling, as the _burst_ of sunshine. {29a} In Bosnia, on the river Una. {29b} A town on the frontiers of Dalmatia. {32} Brother-in-law. The Servians have a number of words to express the shades of relationship. _Brat_ is brother; _Sever_, the husband’s brother; _Shura_, the wife’s brother; _Snaa_, the brother’s wife; _Pobratim_, the adopted friend. {36a} A large commercial town on the river Narenta. {36b} “Salve!” the Mahommedan greeting. {38} A translation very slightly varying from Talvj’s is given by Göthe, in his _Kunst und Alterthum_, Vol. V. ii. p. 60. {39} Ovo _j’glava_ jednog _gospodara_, the head of a Hospodar; man of high rank. {40a} Scupi, in Macedonia. {40b} Vidin, a large fortress in Bulgaria, on the Danube. Nisha, a large fortified city on the Servian frontier. {42a} Ipek, a city in Albania. {42b} Tzarigrader, Zarigrad, the city of the Tzar—Constantinople. The four Greek patriarchs are those of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria. Ipek (in Servia) was the fifth patriarchate, though the first in the eyes of the Servians. Vassilenski is no other than Constantinople (Vselenski), though constantly confounded by the uninstructed. {43} All these are Sirmian convents. Krushedol was founded in 1509, by Bishop Maximus Brankovicz, and is celebrated in many Servian legends. It is famous for its collection of reliques. {44} A renowned convent built by the Tzar Lazar, on the Ressava. It was destroyed by the Turks in 1435. {45} _Ban_, a title frequently used in Servia. Its general acceptation is governor. It may be derived from _Pan_, the old Slavonic for _Lord_. {55} Conductors of the marriage festival.