Matija Murko
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Matija Murko or Mathias Murko was a scholar who worked on oral epic traditions in the Serbo-Croat language (Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian). Published in German and French, his work was little known to scholars unfamiliar with these languages, but it was an important influence on Milman Parry, who was studying for his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, under Antoine Meillet, at the time when Murko's major work appeared in French.
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- Mathias Murko, La poésie populaire épique en Yougoslavie au début du XXe siècle. Paris: Champion, 1929.
- Lord, Albert Bates (1960), The singer of tales, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp. 11-12.
- Dalby, Andrew (2006), Rediscovering Homer, New York, London: Norton, ISBN 0393057887, pp. 186-187.
