Generally, we require supernatural abilities and heroic behaviors from the hero of a mythology, but this paper inquires into the common south slavic national hero, Marko Kraljević, from the aspect of his human being character.
Marko Kraljević gave people in general a great affection from his boyhood, and his devotion and love to the people who are in poverty got connected to love toward his mother ‘Jevrosima’, and his wife ‘Jelena’. A great part of the south slavic oral literary works describe the relation between his father ‘Vukašin’ and Marko Kraljević by the hostility, but such relation is not caused by Marko Kraljević. Therefore his aspect of human being character cannot be damaged.
The heroic mythology can be classified by a behavior and a specificity that shows a hero in a literary work, and the heroic mythology that has such characters is located between a mythology and a legend. From that meaning, Marko Kraljević who was in the actual serbian history(1331-1395) and who is the object of deification from the south slavic people so far, could be said the hero of the south slavic heroic mythology. Marko Kraljević approaches to us sometimes like a military hero, a cultural hero, a religious hero by the oral literary work. But certainly, to this classification have to be added the aspect of ‘the hero like a human being’.