. Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei. y, Zülló, for the troops ofthe king are approaching. Mahizeth is not afairy ; she is a woman, and only worse than weare. She knows her husband is coming withhis army, and wishes to take refuge in theextreme corner of the North, where no manwould dare to follow, and we shall not bemolested any more ! . Zülló did not know the way out of theplace, and Nünüke showed him the same, and,as they were about to start, Nünüke fell to theground, being slain by Mahizeth, who haddiscovered their plans. Next morning theKing of Scandinavia, together with an army
. Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei. y, Zülló, for the troops ofthe king are approaching. Mahizeth is not afairy ; she is a woman, and only worse than weare. She knows her husband is coming withhis army, and wishes to take refuge in theextreme corner of the North, where no manwould dare to follow, and we shall not bemolested any more ! . Zülló did not know the way out of theplace, and Nünüke showed him the same, and,as they were about to start, Nünüke fell to theground, being slain by Mahizeth, who haddiscovered their plans. Next morning theKing of Scandinavia, together with an army,consisting of a large number of men whosewives had deserted them, approached in pursuitof their wives. The women, getting alarmed,rushed a^vay tow^ards the North together wdthZülló and his men, whom they asked to protectthem. They wandered for weeks and weeks,but, being always pursued, they directed theirsteps towards the rocks and ice groups, whichseemed to be the end of the world, and wheretheir husbands could no more follow The Origin ofthe Hungarians, 17 Here they lived, seeing neither the sun rise norset, and nothing but ice all round them. Theypitched their tents on the ice, and there theyremained. Their descendants—the Lapps—are still there, living almost like animals, in thatpart of the globe where no man would care tolive. Thev have to bear the sins of theirmothers, who were unfaithful to their husbands,and the punishment for their fathers, who werecowards in running away from the braveMagyars, who wished to reconquer the lands ofthe Huns. The Magyars had their reward, forthey took possession of Hungary, the mostbeautiful of all countries, and their descendantsare the finest type and noblest of the globesinhabitants, whilst the Lapps are the ugliest ofmankind, and their punishment is that thevhave to live in the coldest corner of theworld. Julians Auvexflres. Maurice Jókai describes the adventures ofthree Hungarian monks, amongst them
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