Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Robert Elsie, a German scholar of Albanian literature and folklore, is being buried in Albania in ...

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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Robert Elsie, a German scholar of Albanian literature and folklore, is being buried in Albania in accordance with his wishes. Elsie died Oct. 2 of motor neuron disease in Bonn, ...

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