After the death of Stephen Uroš V the Weak, Orlović held the mining town of Novo Brdo, as well as his father's possessions on Mount Rudnik in central Serbia.
According to legend, Pavle Orlović's four sons escaped their hometown to Čarađe, near Gacko, after the death of their father and fled to Velimlje, a village in Banjani (modern-day Montenegro).
When she finds one living midst the wounded Then she laves him with the cooling water, Gives him, sacramentally, the red wine, Pledges with her fair white bread the hero.
From his gaping wounds the blood is streaming, His right hand and his left foot are severed; And the hero's ribs are crushed and broken, But he lingers still amongst the living.
From the pools of blood she drags his body And she laves him with the cooling water, Red wine, sacramentally, she gives him, Pledges then with fair white bread the hero.
Wast thou present, oh thou unknown warrior, When for three whole weeks to all his army Prince Lazar the Sacrament was giving By the hands of thirty holy fathers, In the splendid church of Samodreža; When Lazar and all the Serbian army There the Holy Sacrament have taken, Three Voyvodas last of all did enter: First of them was Miloš, the great warrior, Ivan Kosančić was close behind him, And the third, Toplica Milan, followed.
From her white throat pour her lamentations: "Woe is me, what fate I bear within me, I but touch the young and tender sapling And the fair green pine must surely wither.
Serbian historian Jovan Mišković collected folk tellings in Teočin, in which Orlović had left for Kosovo with his 77 friends, and did not return (1933).