The Wedding of Smailagić Meho

The Wedding of Smailagić Meho (Serbo-Croatian: Ženidba Smailagić Meha; also translated as The Wedding of Meho, Son of Smail) is a South Slavic oral epic poem of the Bosniak epic tradition. It recounts the coming of age of the frontier hero Meho Smailagić, who leaves the Ottoman border fortress of Kanjiža to obtain official investiture as a military leader in Buda and to secure his marriage, overcoming ambush, treachery and a large scale battle on the Ottoman–Habsburg frontier.

The most famous version of the poem was dictated between 5 and 12 July 1935 by the guslar Avdo Međedović to collectors Milman Parry and Albert Lord in Bijelo Polje. This text, preserved as Parry Collection no. 6840, consists of 12,311 decasyllabic lines and is one of the longest recorded epics in the Serbo-Croatian oral tradition. It has been discussed in scholarship on the oral-formulaic theory of composition.

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