Moussa Kessedjiya

Also known as: Moussa / Moussa Arbanass / Moussa the Bully / the Albanian / the rebel · Role: rebel · First appears: Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 1

In Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya, Moussa says he had served the Sultan for about nine years without receiving a horse, arms, or a cloak. At the sea-coast he rebelled, seized ports and roads, robbed merchants, and hanged the Sultan’s hodjas and hadjis; he dispersed the army sent against him, captured Tyouprilitch, and bound and sent him back to Istamboul.

At Katchanik, Moussa fought Marko of Prilip and threw him down, pressing his knees on Marko’s breast. Marko cut him open with a secret blade, killed him, and carried his head to the Sultan.

Relationship record

Life events

• Moussa rebelled, seized the sea-ports and main roads, robbed merchants, and hanged the Sultan's hodjas and hadjis.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 1 · 📍 the sea-coast)
  • “He turned rebel, seized the sea-ports and the main roads, captured and robbed the rich merchants, and hanged the Sultan's hodjas and hadjis.”
• The Sultan sent Tyouprilitch with an army against Moussa, but Moussa dispersed it and captured Tyouprilitch.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 1 · 📍 the sea-coast)
  • With: the Sultan (Marko's father-in-God) Tyouprilitch
  • “When the Sultan heard of all these misdeeds, he sent the Grand Vizir Tyouprilitch with three thousand men to undertake a campaign against Moussa. But, alas! no sooner had the Turkish army reached the sea-coast than Moussa dispersed it and took the Grand Vizir prisoner.”
• Moussa bound Tyouprilitch and sent him back to the Sultan.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 1 · 📍 Istamboul)
  • With: Tyouprilitch the Sultan (Marko's father-in-God)
  • “Next he bound the Vizir hand and foot and sent him back thus ignominiously to his master at Istamboul.”
• Marko and Moussa fought, and Moussa threw Marko to the ground and pressed his knees on his breast.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 2 · 📍 Katchanik)
  • With: Marko
  • “Seeing this, Moussa exerted his last remnants of strength and, lifting Marko from the ground, he threw him on to the grass and pressed his knees on his breast.”
• Marko cut Moussa open with a secret blade and killed him.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 2)
  • With: Marko
  • “Marko seized the moment, drew out a secret blade, and with a sudden fierce stroke cut Moussa so that his body was opened from his waist to his neck.”
• Marko cut off Moussa’s head and carried it to the Sultan.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 2)
  • With: Marko
  • “Then he struck off Moussa's head with his sword, put it into Sharatz's nose-bag and returned triumphantly to Istamboul.”

Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 1

• lord: the Sultan (Marko's father-in-God) (Moussa later rebels against the Sultan.) “It is just about nine years since I entered the service of the Sultan at Istamboul, yet he has never given me a horse, or arms, or even a velvet cloak!”
• enemies with the Sultan (Marko's father-in-God) “He turned rebel, seized the sea-ports and the main roads, captured and robbed the rich merchants, and hanged the Sultan's hodjas and hadjis.”
• enemies with Tyouprilitch “But, alas! no sooner had the Turkish army reached the sea-coast than Moussa dispersed it and took the Grand Vizir prisoner.”

Chapter IV · Prince Marko and Moussa Kessedjiya · Part 2

• servant: Novak “When Moussa turned rebel and went to the sea-coast, he ordered me to make him a sword, with which he cut right through the anvil as thou hast done, and through the trunk of an oak-tree upon which it was standing, as well.”
• enemies with Marko “Hearing this, Marko of Prilip aimed his lance at Moussa's breast, but the fierce Albanian received it on his warrior-mace, and it glanced off, whizzing high above his head.”
• parent: Moussa's mother “I know well that thou wert born of a queen in a palace, and wert laid upon silken cushions. Doubtless thy mother wrapped thee in pure silk, and fastened the silk with golden thread, and gave thee honey and sugar; my mother was a poor, wild Albanian, and I was born on the cold rocks near the sheep she was tending, and she wrapped me in a rough, black cloth, tying it on to me with bramble twigs; she fed me on oatmeal--but above all things she always made me swear that I should never move aside for anybody.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians (Chapters IV–XIII). Made with Rho MD.