Veda Slovena
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Veda Slovena (Веда Словена in Modern Bulgarian, originally written as Веда Словенахъ) is a collection of folk songs and legends of the Muslim Bulgarians in the Rhodopes and Aegean Macedonia, the first volume of which was printed in 1874 in Belgrade and the second 1881 in Saint Petersburg under the authorship of Bosnian Serb Stefan Verković. The collection was assembled by Bulgarian teacher Ivan Gologanov for 12 years and is famous for containing numerous elements of ancient Slavic mythology notwithstanding the conversions first to Christianity and then to Islam.
Veda Slovena has been alleged to have been partly or fully forged by Gologanov ever since its publication, dividing scholar circles into two groups, the one considering the texts to be forged, the other defending their genuineness. Recently editions like "Bulgarian Encyclopaedia"[1] consider Veda Slovena to be a mystification.
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- Full text of Veda Slovena (in dialectal Bulgarian and Cyrillic)
- The Veda Slovena mystery
- Lexical analysis of Veda Slovena
