In the period before the introduction of the printing press, song-writing in Slovene offered seemingly very modest testimonies: song-writing in Slovene is only directly testified by the Auersperg or Turjak fragment. The article analyses the contexts and some traces of the Slovene language in the creation of medieval poetry and addresses the question of the role of Slovenes in the creative social elite of that period, also reassessing the origin and role of the song Pegam in Lambergar (Pegam and Lambergar).
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