Avdo Međedović (c. 1875 – 1955) was a Slavic Muslim guslar (gusle player and oral poet) from Montenegro.

[1] He was the most versatile and skillful performer of all those encountered by Milman Parry and Albert Lord during their research on the oral epic tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the 1930s.

[3] Međedović was a Slavic Muslim born in the village of Obrov, near Bijelo Polje (now in Montenegro) in 1875, while it was a part of the Ottoman Empire.

[6] During his second tour with the army, Međedović was wounded and spent 45 days in a hospital; while one bullet was removed, another remained in his arm.

[8][better source needed] He was the most versatile and skillful performer of all those encountered by Milman Parry and Albert Lord during their research on the oral epic tradition of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro in the 1930s.

An illiterate butcher in a small town of the central Balkans was equaling Homer’s feat, at least in regard to length of song.

The opening scene of "The Wedding of Meho, Son of Smail" is an assembly of the lords of the Turkish Border in the city of Kanidža.

In Krauss’s published version this assembly occupies 141 lines; Avdo’s text has 1,053 lines.Avdo learned from many men, firstly from his father Ćor Huso Husein of Kolašin "whose reputation seems to have been prodigious".