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

PROVISION

Saint gives alms

Stephen: Saint often gives alms to the poor: ST I:21, 22, 25; ST III:14, 32, 33, 34, 39; CP:67; CH:63; Ransanus: IX.14; Thuroczy: 58; Bonfini: 2.1.245, 2.1.275; Temesvari: 52.32,38.

Ladislas: Saint often gives alms to the poor: Kezai:II.18.; Temesvari:14.2.3.

Irene: Saint often gives alms to the poor: PE I:2; PE II:3.

Elizabeth: Support, alms: EL IV:III.8, 10, IV.1, 3, 4, 6, 26, 27; EL V:18, 21; EL VI: 6; EL VII:2.VII, XI, XII, 3.V, VI, 7.I, II; EL VIII:14, 15, 116, 34, 36; Laskai: 91; KlaniczayT-KlaniczayG: 122 (iconography: the seal of the city of Kassa/Kasovice, SK).

Kinga: Saint gives alms: KI I:9.

Margaret: Saint gives alms to the poor: MA I:I.91, 95; MA II:I.26; Ransanus: XVI.12.

Saint aids otherwise

Gerald: The legend of the ’symphony of Hungarians’. Saint rewards the maid-servant who sings while grinding wheat in a handmill: GE II:42.

Ladislas: Saint aids widows whosw husbands died in battle: Laskai:49.2.1.

Irene: Saint aids her subjects, provides for them: PE I:2; PE II:3. Saint provides for the widowed and orphaned: PE I:2; PE II:3.

Elizabeth: Saint pays the debt of the poor man: EL IV:II.16; EL V:10, 13, 25, 26, 28.

Saint attends to orphan children: EL VII:3.IV.

Kinga: Saint provides for the poor: KI I:9, 19.

Saint donates clothes

Elizabeth: Saint distributes clothes among the poor: EL IV:II.17, 19, 20. Saint gives her own clothes (her rich cloak) to the poor: EL VII:2.VI, X; EL VIII:9. Saint weaves and sews clothing and shrouds for the poor: EL IV:II.15, 16; EL V:10; EL VII:3.VI; EL VIII:19.

Margaret: Saint gives her own garments to a poor man in winter frost: MA II:I.26. Saint gives her new clothes away to the poor: MA II:I.11.

Saint provides food

Elizabeth: Saint provides food for the poor: EL VII:2.III, 6.X; EL VIII:16; Radocsay: 376 (Lőcse/? SK: St. Elizabeth altarpiece). Saint distributes the crops from the granaries to the people during famine: EL I:2; EL IV:II.18; EL V:12; EL VII:3.IV.; Bonfini: 2.7.310.

Kinga: Saint provides food for those in need: KI I:34; KI II:20. Multiplication of food: KI II:20. Saint provides food and clothes for nuns in need: KI I:34.

Nursing the sick

Elizabeth: Saint nurses the sick: EL I:3, 3; EL IV:II.3, IV.6-8; EL VII:2.VII, 3.IV, V, 6.X, 7.V; VIII:8, 17, 35; Bonfini: 2.7.330; EC:642; Radocsay: 266, 343 (Bártfa/?, SK: St. Elizabeth altarpiece; Kassa/Kasovice, SK: high altar of St. Elizabeth).

Margaret: Saint prays to the Lord for the healing of the sick: MA I:I.94. Saint nurses, cares for the diseased: MA I:I.62, 63, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89-90, 91; MA II:I.21. Saint, with the help of the brethren, helps the diseased even outside the walls of the convent: MA I:I.91. Saint often sends her own meals to the ill nuns: MA I:I.96. Saint keeps praying by the bedside of dying nuns until their burial: MA I:I.62-63.

Saint does not find the sick repellent

Elizabeth: The more repellent the disease, the more saint likes to nurse the sick: EL I:2; EL IV:II.18, IV.1; EL V:6, 12, 21.

Margaret: Saint doesn’t shrink from nursing those who suffer of repellent diseases: MA I:I.75, 78, 79, 90, VI.36, 42; MA II:I.22. Saint receives the vomit of the sick in her own proffered palms: MA I:I.75; MA II:I.22.

Nursing lepers

Gerald: Saint lays a leper into his own bed: GE I:7; GE II:38.

Kinga: Saint nurses lepers, kisses their wounds: KI I:7. Saint seats a leper in her own couch: KI I:7.

Elizabeth: Saint lays a leper into her husband’s bed (’the miracle of the cross’): EL VII:2.VII; Timar: 195-196; EC:642-643; Radocsay: 343, 376, 452 (Kassa: high altar of St. Elizabeth; Lőcse: St. Elizabeth altarpiece; Szmrecsány: Christ’s Parentage altarpiece). Saint attends to lepers (washes their feet, kisses their wounds): EL I:3; EL IV:II.22, 23, IV.9; EL V:13, 22; EL VII:2.XII; TemesvariStell: VII.2; Temesvari: 87; EC:642; Radocsay: 452 (Szmrecsány: Christ’s Parentage altarpiece).

Foundation of hospices, homes for the aged

Irene: Saint founds hospice, a home for the poor and aged: PE I:2; PE II:3; Hymn III.

Elizabeth: Saint founds hospices for the poor (Wartburg, Marburg): EL I:2; EL IV:III.8, IV.8; EL VI:20; EL VII:3.IV, V, 6.IV; EL VIII:17, 34; Bonfini: 2.7.330.

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.

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