Filip Visnjic
Filip Višnjić (1767-1834) is one of the most famous Serbian guslars and creators of Serbian folk songs. He was born in Majevica, in the village of Trnova, in a part of the village known as Vilića guvno. Blinded by smallpox as a child, Visnjic became a professional singer. With his fiddle in his hands, he traveled throughout the Bosnian "pashaluq", and further, through Herzegovina and Montenegro, all the way to Skadra, wherever the audience gladly listened to him and his fiddle. In addition to being the editor of old songs, Filip Visnjic was also the creator of new songs. Thirteen songs "from Karadjordj's time", together with several other less important songs by other singers, make up the last, insurgent cycle of the Serbian folk epic. Associating with insurgent dukes and insurgents, he collected material for his poetry and became a kind of epic chronicler of the glorious insurgent era. He lived mostly near the Drina battlefield, and sometimes he was in the very fire of the clash.
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