“Battling at the name of Skanderbeg”: the literary metamorphoses of George Castriot
I take the title of this essay from the poem by Padraic Colum, entitled “Scanderbeg”, which I will be quoting in its entirety at its conclusion. Judged at least from a strictly grammatical perspective, the phrase “battling at the name of Scanderbeg” might perhaps appear to be a somewhat dubious one,…