Sunday 5 June 2011

Wars and Sawa

Legend tell where from begun the name of capital city in Poland.
There was in the past, when in Poland lived king Kazimierz Odnowiciel. One more time he have been tramping from Krakow to Gniezno. On his way he came up poor fisherman’s hut.  King found this hut thanks to the smoke and the smell of fresh food. Fisherman treated  king Kazimierz some fishe from the night’s catch and told King about his family. He had marvellous twins: girl and boy.  Because he lived in the middle of primeral forest and there was any church they (fisherman and his wife) could not baptise the babies.
The king, who had really enjoyed the meal, wanted to pay the peasants with geld, but they, according to the old polish tradition of hospitality, refused to take any payement. Then the king asked them for one more favour – he asked to be a twin’s godfather at their baptism that he would organize.  They set up an altar on a hill and a priest commissioned by King  Kazimierz named the twins Wars (the boy) and Sawa (the girl). And king Kazimierz announced that  Peter Fisherman would from then on be called Piotr Wars, the royal fisherman, the father of Wars i Sawa, and the owner of the vast forecast. The king also told him that one day when a village began to take shape near his hut, that he should give it a name derived from his new surname – and the village would carry that name forever.