Deli Marku (stride giant)
Deli Marku
Central stride-giant; one step Kruja to Krraba Pass; footprint lore.
Description
Central Albanian stride-giant. Elsie s.v. Deli Marku: Turk. deli ‘crazy’ + Marku; known in Krraba, Mat, Tirana; one step from Kruja mountains to Krraba Pass — footprint visible there. Hahn noted Slavic Kraljević Marko contact; footprint lore also overlaps Sari Salltëk’s Kruja→Corfu leap tradition.
Features
- huge stride Kruja→Krraba; footprint (Elsie)
Lead story
One step from Kruja’s mountains to the Krraba Pass — the print still named. Elsie keeps the giant short. Marko and Sari footprint lore tangles nearby, but Deli Marku stays a stride-giant of the central hills.
Aliases
Deli Marku
Region
Central Albania — Krraba, Mat, Tirana (Elsie)
Relations
- Jelim (Çamëria giants)not the same as
- Sari Saltik (Krujë / Pashtrik mountain sacral)footprint interference
Linked stories
- Deli Marku — Krraba stepRecorded
One step from Kruja to Krraba Pass; footprint left in the stone.