Written by Klára Friedrich
Translated into English by Margaret Botos
Contents
The Dragonboat people p. 2
Rurik, the Hawk p. 12
Vikings on the Russian throne for 720 years p. 16
Ancient comrades in arms –
The German population is aged and the birthrate is dangerously low: 1.38 children per woman. The immigrants are replacing the German population, which has been disappearing little by little. The Germans who pass away are the...
JÁNOS VITÉZ
Petőfi Sándor
Translated by
John Ridland
as
John the Valiant
1
The blistering sun in the midsummer sky
Beats down on the shepherd boy from on high.
No need for the sun to be blazing above,
Inside him, the...
SÁNDOR PETŐFI
THE APOSTLE
A NARRATIVE POEM
(1848)
TRANSLATED BY VICTOR CLEMENT
CORVINA PRESS
Title of the Hungarian original: AZ APOSTOL
The quotation on the cover is from the manuscript of The Apostle, in Petőfi's own...
CELTS AND MAGYARS
Sándor Timaru-Kast
I. EUROPE'S IRON AGE PEOPLE
About the origin of the Celts, their arrival in Europe and their settling in the Carpathian Basin
The Celts
"The first people living in...