Hungarian

Demeter Csáthi

late 15th–early 16th century


Hungarian poet and Franciscan monk, presumed author of a national ballad on the Magyar conquest of Pannonia (Bowring calls his date uncertain).

His poems here are read in John Bowring's English versions from Poetry of the Magyars (1830), an early English anthology of Hungarian verse.

  1. Conquest of the Magyar Land

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