Hungarian legends
The Hungarian history is rich in legends. All of them was important in the medieval
hungarian people’s life, but some of them bear a good character nowadays as well. Most of
the stories were born in the 9th and 10th century, this was the period of the Hungarian’s
roaming and the time of the settlement in the Carpathian Basin. The legends almost always
contain religious subjects and these are often telling a story about Hungarian saints becouse
the Christian church had been connected to them.
The most famous are the followings:
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The magic deer (A csodaszarvas)
The dream of Emese (Emese álma)
Blood-contract (Vérszerződés)
The horn of Lehel (Lehel kürtje)
The Hungarian blessed crown (A magyar szent korona)
The legend of Saint-László (Szent László legendája)
The legend of Saint-Margit (Szent Margit legendája)
The Echo of Tihany (A tihanyi vízhang)
The magic deer - The story of the Hungarian nation and their settling
In the beginning of the story there is a big land in the far east. The Lord of the land called
Nimród who is the father of two young brave and strong boy Hunor (the Huns) and Magor
(magyarok = the Hungarians). One day the two boy went to hunting as they always did with
100-100 brave hunter, but in this hunting they saw a beautiful white deer. They wanted to
catch the deer, so they started to chase it. The big team were running all day, but every night
they lost the deer and the day after it showed again. This running continued for days until
they found a delightful place (carpathian basin). The chaseing showed the migration of the
Hungarians trought the steppe. In this beautiful place that was full of lakes ands big trees
the magic deer dissapeared forever, but Hunor and Magor saw a group of ladies one more
beutiful than the other, they were singing right at the place where the deer dissapeared.
Hunor and Magor’s eyes met just like the other men’s. Hunor and Magor pulled up those
girls to their saddles who were dancing in the centre of the circle. The two men get married
to Dul king’s daughters. This part tellss the settlement. Hunor and his 100 men’s descedants
became the Huns and Magor and his 100 men’s descedants became the Hungarians.
The echo of Tihany
Tihany, the mountains' magnificent, golden-haired fairy sang in every night. Balaton, the lord
of the waters lived in the deep of the lake in his tent, the columns is decorated of which
genuine pearls a thousand. The only son of Balaton, who lived with his father there in the
depth of the waters, Tihany heard his song some times, so he rose onto the surface, that in
detail let him be allowed to hear the wonderful sound.
– Don’t listen Tihany tempter's sound, – Balaton warned his son.
Tihany realised that everybody likes his song, for all songs sung if they pay by diamond only
later because of this.
Beneath the lake the only son of Balaton got sick on deep one's. Implored his father: – Let
me hear Tihany's beautiful sound one more time, I hope I am cured by him certainly. Old
Balaton collected a punt truth pearl and when Tihany came down in the evening his goats to
drink onto the coast of the lake, carried up the treasures to it. Tihany liked the pearls and
sang for them. But from this evening Balaton must come to Tihany with a sack treasure
because Tihany didn’t sang without gift. All of the treasure of Balaton ran out finally, Tihany
didn’t sang.
The son of Balaton died. They buried him deeply into Badacsony mountain. The revenge of
Balaton was terrible. The lord of the waters caught sight of Badacsony coffin up there some
times, his mourning and his pain occurred to him and stirred up the water of the lake in his
anger. An evening strong waves sprang up. The scared Tihany ran away from the blows of
the waves into a cave. Balaton was shaken down there, the mountain stirred and the mouth
of the cave was burying in rock landslide, walling Tihany up. Balaton sowed a curse on the
beautiful fairy:
– From a punishment anybody join the discussion about you starting henceforth, repeat all
of his words seven times!
The Tihany echo is there today, his rock prison and his beautiful sound repeats all words.
Blood-contract
The blood-contract was taken by the 7 big leader of the Hungarians before the statehood of
Hungary. All the leaders got around in a tent when two revered men appeared with a sword
and a bowl both of these were Attila’s Attila the hun’s. A lot of people were waiting for the
leaders of the 7 tribe. After long hours one man called Álmos came to the front of the crowd
and said that It’s the time to get back our nation’s land, the land of Attila, but the law says
that the nations need to have the same blood, so the 7 tribe will become 1 nation with one
leader as in the time of Attila. Álmos told to everybody that they chose Árpád as the main
leader who was Áloms’s son. The People celabrated the new chief, when the other revered
man the táltos called the 7 leader to him. All of them cut their hands with the sword and
distilled their blood to the bowl, the last one was Árpád. The táltos poured wine to the bowl
and gave itt o the 7 men and they drank one gulp and Árpád was the last one.
So the 7 tribe took an oath to Árpád as the only leader of the Nation.