She at first thinks they are in jest and plays along, as "three hundred artisans" build up the wall to her knees. He explains away his tears to her, and the two older brothers lead her off to be immured. The following day Gojko is heartbroken to see his wife approaching the citadel first.
Only the youngest brother, Gojko, keeps the promise to not tell his wife. He, however, breaks the oath, as does his brother Uglješa, and they both warn their wives of the danger and instruct them to not come to the construction site the next day. Vukašin relates the vila's words to his two brothers and warns them to not say anything to their wives so that the outcome can truly be left to fate. She tells him that in order to end his torment and ensure that what he builds by day remains standing at night, the wife of one of the three brothers must be sacrificed: whoever of the three wives arrives first to bring their husband's lunch the following day should be walled-up inside the walls of the citadel. Three brothers and their three hundred strong workforce have been laboring in vain on the construction of a citadel on the Bojana River for three years anything they have built during the day collapses at night.Ī vila calls to Vukašin, the master-builder, and the elder of the three brothers. It takes as its subject the construction of a citadel in the ancient Balkan city of Skadar, or Shkodër, in present day Albania. "The Building of Skadar", first published by the early Serbian folklorist Vuk Karadžić in 1815, represents the ballad in one of its classic forms. 4.3 Male appropriation of female creativity.4.2 Spiritual animation of a new building.4.1 Appeasement of the gods for man's hubris.
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