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| | Folklore: To honour the female: the gendering of the South Slavic epic tradition - Research article: focus on women |
 | | In the Dinaric tradition (see versions in VUK and Bill), the wife is portrayed as leaving her husband helpless on the battlefield. |
 | | Alternatively, she joins the enemy and ignores the cries of her young son (VUK, volume 3, no. 7) or she deserts to the enemy, is reluctant to be rescued, and wounds her husband (VUK, volume 2, no. 44). |
 | | In all cases, the wife's treachery is unmotivated, and in all but one version (VUK, volume 2, no. 44), she is punished by being burnt alive. |
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