Jugoslovenski Rotar

tako, što bi jedan drugom zarezao uho 1 onda ispili krv što bi protekla.

Iz ovoga mučnog krvavog doba, doba ratni¢kog romanticizma, imamo i najljepSe legende ı najljepše narodne pjesme, koje је ovaj narod dao kao svoj najveći prilog opstoj jugoslavenskoj kulturi.

Dok je hrvatski katolički dio našeg naroda ovdje, na zapadnoj strani, bio u većini ı dok su madjarski kraljevi imali jaku vlast, Krajina je pretstavljala hrišćanski bedem protiv islama, a kad su Je Turci osvojili, ona je postala islamski bedem protiv hrišćanstva, koji Je karakter sačuvala sve do god. 1878.

Počerkom devetnaestog vijeka Krajina je graničila sa Napoleonovom Ilirijom. General Marmon — da zaštiti naš narod — opsjeda Bihać i pali grad Izačić, te odvodi sobom osam stotina Srba i javlja Napoleonu, da su to hrabri ratnici pa da će mu čuvati granicu. Još i danas krajiški graničari pričaju kako su se nekad, za vrijeme Napoleona, njihovi pjetlovi čuli u tri carevine!

Uslijed ratova, gladi ı bolesti, izgledalo je da će Krajina opustiti, pa je bilo pasa, kao Sto je Mudred pasa, koji je — Sto milom Sto silom — sklopio na hiljade brakova. Po iz-

married them. Christians and Mohammedans were even fraternising with each other. The ceremony was enacted by making little cuts at each other’s ears and then drinking the blood.

From this strenuous and bloody period, the era of warring romanticism, we have our most beautiful legends and national songs which this people presented as their greatest contribution to the common Jugoslav culture.

As long as the Croatian, Catholic portion of our nation was in majority here on the Western side, and as long as the Hungarian Kings were strong, the Bosnian Krayina represented the bulwark of Christianity against the Moslems, but when it was conquered by the Turks, it became the Mohammedan bulwark against Christianity, retaining this character till 1878.

At he beginning of the nineteenth century the Bosnian Krayina was bordering on Napoleon’s Illyria. General Marmont — in order was besieging Bihac

to protect our people and burnt down the town of Izatié, taking with him eight hundred Serbs, and reported to Napoleon that they were brave soldiers who would protect the frontier. Even to-day

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