Magyar Zoltán

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

PROPHECY

Prophecy of (saint’s) birth

Elizabeth: Klingsor, the legendary Transylvanian Saxon bard and sage foretells saint’s birth and marriage with the son of the landgrave of Thuringia: EL VII:1.I.

Prophecy of own death

Gerald: Saint foretells his own martyrdom: GE I:12; GE II:48, 51.; EC:545.

Kinga: Saint foretells her own death: KI I:61, 62.

Foretelling the time of death

Gerald: Saint foretells the time of his own martyrdom: GE II:51.; EC:545.

Elizabeth: Saint foretells the time of her death: EL I:3; EL IV:IV.35; EL V:30; EL VII:8.I.

Helen: Saint foretells the time of her own death: HE:7.

Margaret: Saint foretells the exact time of her death: MA I:I.125; MA II:I.58, 59.

Prophecy of others’ death

Gerald: Saint foretells the death by sword in three years’ time of the usurper king: GE I:12; GE II: 47-48.; EC:544.

Margaret: Saint foretells her father’s military successes in the campaign against the Austrian prince and the death of the prince in battle: MA I:I.4; MA II:I.53.

Prophecy of war

Gerald: Saint foretells civil strife and pagan insurrection: GE I:12; GE II:46.; EC:544.

Helen: Saint foretells the 1241 Mongol invasion: HE:7.

Prophecy of other person’s survival

Gerald: Saint doesn’t administer the sacrament to a fellow-priest who would not be martyred: GE II:51.

Helen: Saint foretells that a dying nun to whom the extreme unction was administered would not die: HE:8.

Prophecy about the decay of the town where saint is buried

Kinga: Because most of the townspeople in the city of saint’s burial-place (Ószandec/Stary Sacz) do not believe in saint’s chastity, her confessor foretells the decline of the city (’There where today red cloth is sold tomorrow stinging nettles will grow, then you will believe!’): KI I:45, 58.

Other prophecies

Elizabeth: Saint foretells her future life as a beggar: EL IV:II.21.

Margaret: Saint foretells that her body would not let off a stale smell after her death: MA I:I.125; MA II:I.59.

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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