The present volume is a bibliographically richly documented overview of the oral literature of Southeast Europe and for the first time compares sung texts with translated examples (heroic songs and historical song chronicles, Kleften and Hajuken songs, ballads and narrative songs, religious songs and songs about death and separation, Love, wedding and spring songs, carnival songs and children's songs) and spoken texts (fairy tales, sagas and traditions, legends and edifying stories, rascals and anecdotes, proverbs and riddles) in a cross-language and cross-border context in the traditional folk culture of Hungary and Romania , the South Slavic countries and Albania, Greece and Turkey.