%0 Journal Article %T La muerte de Digen¨ªs Akritas: Tradici¨®n medieval y cantares modernos %A Casamiquela Gerhold %A Victoria %J Byzantion nea hell¨¢s %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-84712010000100007 %X the aim of this article is to introduce a versi¨®n of a modern akritic song, generally considered as part of the greek folkloric tradition, whose argument refers the circumstances of the death of the byzantine hero vasilios digen¨ªs akrites. certain aspects of the structure and topics of the song are then discussed, on the basis of some comparisons established with the medieval poems and other modern versions of digenes' death. %K digenes akrites %K byzantine poems %K modern folkloric tradition. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-84712010000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en