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So here's the reposts of two legends I mentioned in he music thread.
The next story is not a Hungarian legend but a German one, nevertheless it's about the Hungarians, the invaders of the 10th century. The account was put on papers by the monks of Saint Gall - today in Switzerland - the same people who suffered the strikes of our glorius warriors, and it's a very real tale. The monks ran a library and an archive there. The three main source of the happenings are: the Annals Alemannia, the Casus Sancti Galli (by Ekkehart IV) and the two biography of Saint Wiborada - all were written by them.
After we crushed in 907 at Pressburg the puny army of the child king Louis of East Francia who attacked us with the intention of genocide in his typical German mind, we started our invasions into German territories too. The excursions was very successful and the Magyars raided closer and closer to Bodensee. In 925 a hermit nun called Wiborada prophesied that next year the Magyars will attack Saint Gall's abbey. The monks fled with most of the archives and treasures to Wasserburg with the exception of the one nutty Heribald. He said he won't go anywhere until he doesn't get the leather for his boots for that year.
When our warriors arrived on 1st May they found Heribald on the courtyard. Because they had a translator they soon know that our fine monk is a simpleton so they didn't harm him. They plundered the neighbouring houses, set those on fire and hoarded their findings to the courtyard where they had a large feast and invited Heribald too who participated with great joy. He saw how Hungarians carouse how they joke and brawl with each other. Two of them climbed the abbey and fall down from the roof to their death. They burned their bodies at the gates of the abbey.
They couldn't get inside and they climbed the roofs again, from there they managed to get into the cell of Wiborada who stayed there with another nun and kept praying. One fighter bashed Wiborada's head with a hatchet but left the other nun alive. I've no idea what Wiborada did to deserve this anyway she became later the first woman formally canonized by the Vatican.
Next day the Magyars left to continue their raids and lived happily until they died.