What is Northern Albanian men traditional head covering origin?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

[Ujku]

Is it rare for people in the north wearing that ?

[Tauromachos]

Looks like a depigmented version of Rajastan Gypsies

Even the instrument is similar"compare to man at 11:06" in the video

[Moje ime]

Something interesting about this dressing. So called "Rugovo sword dance" that goes with this dressing was included in ethnic dances from Kosovo as Albanian folk dance in SFR Yugoslavia.
(from Tito times).

This is quote:

"The Warrior dance of Rugovo (Albanian: Vallja me shpata e Rugovës, Serbian: Борбена руговска игра) is a traditional sword dance named after the Rugova Canyon in Kosovo. There are two male dancers who fight a mock battle for the hand of a girl (a "maiden's dance"). It was made internationally famous by the Kosovo Albanian Rugova clans (hailing from Kelmend in Albania). It has been unreliably claimed that the dance was a historical "warrior training of the guard of the Monastery of Peć". The dance is also found in mountainous Montenegro, where a tribe of shepherds settled in the 18th century. It was part of Yugoslav folk dancing ensemble, and in 1982, it was noted that "in the last time the Rugova dance has gained wide popularity"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugovo_(sword_dance)

Now you can't blame us why we see Albanians as Muslims when we had this as their official representation of tradition.

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Looks like a depigmented version of Rajastan Gypsies

Even the instrument is similar"compare to man at 11:06" in the video

The funny part is when you have people trying to convice others that this is "normal" and "costumary" in Europe "It's not that different in other European nations".

Albanian folk costumes and traditions have always stand out to me because they don't resemble at all any other nation in Europe I can think of.








Wearing turbans, funny hats, singing sitted in socks while drinking tea in Mosque-like rooms, dancing with swords like Saudis, etc, doesn't resemble the middle-east at all, it is "100% unaltered ancient illyrian tradtions from a zillion years ago"

[KrashNick]

Looks like a depigmented version of Rajastan Gypsies

Even the instrument is similar"compare to man at 11:06" in the video

That sounds nothing like Lahuta .

You do realize that South Slavs use Lahuta/Gusle too right ?




Albanian

[Kelmendasi]

Lol how they find one tiny aspect of our clothing which isn't even really used now to claim that we aren't European or Illyrian. It's really petty.

[Mens-Sarda]

The instrument looks like some Arabic derived instrument. If I remember correctly during the Ottoman age, many Albanians were hired as mercenaries and stationed in Egypt as garrison militias. Perhaps they acquired the use of that kind of Turban and musical instrument during their permanence in Egypt.

P.S. What's the name of the Albanian instrument?

The instrument in the concept is similar to this Arabic instrument, just with a different shape :



This is from Serbia and Dalmatia

[HERK]

Where exactly?

[Albobalboa]

This thread is a good example of the cockworship Albanians have to endure. Now suddenly the fact that there's a sword dance is a problem?

Also Albanians that have to go "dis is similuh in muh yurop da crusadah", just stop. Even if it was identical to the what the MIGHTY CRUSADAHMANZ WUZ WEARIN it doesn't make a difference, all you're doing is making us all look like some coping Serboi/Moor.

Everyone knows the reason Viriato copes through these threads is because Portugal has a crazy amount of recent MENA admixture. Everyone knows that Moja Ime fantasises of Albanian men, and the next thread is likely to be about why Albanian men have belts that are somehow difficult to untie.