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Hungarian legends.pdf

Group members:

Csotar Csaba

Daniel Garcia

Alessandro Tesse

Simon Schmiedel

Julia Seefried

Lisa Hart

Annarita Chieppa

Task:

Collect all the Hungarian legends and folk tales your fellow students have found and analyse them.

The following questions will help you:

What are the stories about? Are there common themes or topics?

How are the stories told? (Think of narrative perspective; style...etc.)

Can you find similarities between them?

If you haven't done so already: Find something out about the place they are still told. Can you discover why those stories emerged?

Now prepare a short presentation about it.

In a next step, change groups so every group will consist of someone who knows about German, Spanish / Catalan, Hungarian and Italian legends. Share what you have found in the group and compare your findings.

Again, ask yourself:

Are there common themes or topics?

Are the stories told in a similar way? Is the storyline similar?

Can you find a pattern which seems to underly some/most of the stories?

Now think about an interesting way to introduce your fellow students to the topic. You might also want to explain what superstitions actually are and where do they come from.

Don't forget to test your fellow students' knowledge at the end!

Lehel

955 AC the Magyare were defeated at the Lechfeld by king Otto I.
the leaders should die and could choose how
Lehel, one of the leaders, wanted to blow the cowhorn to ask the goddes
instead of blowing it he hit the enemys leader Konrad the Red and killed him
even today you can see the damage at the cowhorn

The majestic deer

The legend is used to explain how and why the Magyars, Magor‘s descendents, arrived and settled in Hungary
two brothers (Hunor and Magor) saw a majestic deer
at the seventh day they found a fertil ground and decided to move there
they found girls and kidnapped two of them to marry m: the Huns and the Magyars
later the Magyars moved to new land, caused by increased population

The Turul

Based on a large falcon wich established the hungarian people
it‘s a creature mixed from a falcon and an eagle
today it‘s a sign for the hungarian origin
it dropped a sword in a place, where now budapest is
he can be found as a statue on the bridge of liberty in Budapest
the Turul is a popular monument

Dream of Emese

Turul visited Emese in her dreams and got her pregnant
in some other versions of the story she was already pregnant when she was visited by him
her son was called Álmos (by hungarian: dream - álom)
Árpáden kings followed (by Álmos‘ son Árpad)
1001 - 1301: first hungarian kingdom

Similarities

about the origin of hungarian people
very early (all before 1000 AD)
about the nobility
about the Magyarens
in Turul and majestic deer: the animals are the main characters

similar stories of other countries:

Italy: the deer devil

faithful shepherd coming from Oliena

devil transforms himself in a deer to make him commit a sin

shepherd goes hunting and follows the deer

during following he falls into a big hole, told to be the entrace of hell

could get out safely by the help of other people though he‘d been treated by dead

Germany: the white deer

a man on a field sees a white deer

he wants to have it and follows it

at a fountain the deer walks to sits a virgin

the viegin shows 5he man to look back

as the man looks back the virgin and the deer disappear

they were never seen again