20.500.12556/RUL-186731 Comparative analysis of Albanian folktales in the ATU system, with Slovenian parallels This study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches within a comparative framework to analyse Albanian folktales in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) classification system alongside the Slovenian tradition. The quantitative tier surveys Uther's (2011)The Types of International Folktales, identifying 282 Albanian tale types across six of the seven major categories, dominated by Anecdotes and Jokes (55.9%), with Formula Tales entirely absent. The qualitative tier analyses Robert Elsie's (2001) corpus ofthirty-two narratives, assigning five folktales to international types (ATU 510, 514, 550, 561, 425C), tracing motif correspondences from Strabo and Apuleius through the One Thousand and One Nights to Perrault and Grimm, and confirming that the ten legends lie beyond the ATU framework. The comparative tier juxtaposes the Albanian findings with Monika Kropej Telban's type indexes of Slovenian folktales (2015, 2025a, 2025b). Three conclusions emerge: the two traditions share the pan-European narrative inheritance while preserving irreducibly local mythological systems (Bukura e Dheut, Kulshedra, Zana; povodni mož, Wild Man, vile); typological identity does not entail mythological identity; and the contradiction between the catalogue's silence on Albanian Formula Tales and the presence of a cumulative tale in Elsie's corpus demonstrates that distributional figures measure the history of documentation as much as the tradition itself. The asymmetry between the systematically indexed Slovenian repertoire and the dispersedly documented Albanian one issues a programmatic call for a national Albanian type index. Albanian folktales Slovenian folktales ATU classification comparative folklore tale types Robert Elsie Monika Kropej Telban albanske ljudske pripovedi slovenske ljudske pripovedi ATU-klasifikacija primerjalna folkloristika pripovedni tipi književnost true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Podatek o licenci CC-BY je naveden na pristajalni strani članka (glej izvorni URL zgoraj). (Datum opombe: 4. 9. 2026) Članek v reviji 2026-09-04 10:53:50 2026-09-04 10:53:52 2026-09-06 03:35:49 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 11-18 iss. 3 Vol. 15 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 821 1857-8187 10.58885/ijllis.v15i3.11mbai 289877507 RAZ_Blazic_Milena_2026.pdf RAZ_Blazic_Milena_2026.pdf 1 1F5CAFD3BEAD3235827FDA2A15A4F0DE 52bc9adb551d74063b8bb0d191d6184434f41aa289e1d592135e264850738483 b1c09c6a-a842-11f1-8bc5-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=246083 https://www.anglisticum.org.mk/index.php/IJLLIS/article/view/2600 0 ca94e7ec-a842-11f1-8bc5-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=246084 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0