Magyar Zoltán

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Nun Elizabeth of Töss (Erzsébet, Elisabeth)

She was the last in the line of the House of Árpád, ’the last blossom of the [last] golden bough’: born in Buda in 1292 as the daughter of king Andrew [Endre] III, she was only six years old when her parents betrothed her to the Bohemian prince Venceslas. After the death of her father (1301) and rejected by Venceslas, she was educated in Vienna and at the age of twenty entered the Dominican convent of Töss by Winterthur, Switzerland. She died there in October 1338, her death ending the history of the House of Árpád, long extinct on the male line (Grubmüller 1969; Puskely 1992).

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2026

ISBN: 978 963 664 185 6

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

The work of folklorist Zoltán Magyar throws light on a relatively little-known segment of the dynastyc cult of saints in Central European cultural history. The hagiographies and legends written on different members of the Árpadian dynasty, ruling in Hungary between the 11th and 13th centuries, and their contemporaries endowed with the aura of sanctity, occur not only in their medieval Hungarian legendry but have also become part of the liturgical tradition and the cult of saints on German, Polish and Byzantine soil. The thematic and generic variety of this legendry and its many folkloric implications show close parallels with another major work of medieval European hagiography: the legends of early Irish saints. The type- and motif-index and generatic catalogue compiled by Zoltán Magyar orders the epic tradition, based on 11rh-16th century written sources, of twelve Hungarian royal saints who have become the subject of legends shortly after their death. Beside classification according to the type of legendd heroes and themes, the book also contains an analysis of the biographical data, of the historical sources and of the primary types and motifs of hagiographies.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/magyar-early-hungarian-saints-type-and-motif-index//

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