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Trutnov legends

A set of old Trutnov legends has been preserved and recorded in the work of the chronicler Simon Hüttel in the 16th century.

In the words of the historian August Sedláček: “Legend is an oral narrative which has not disappeared but luckily had been recorded for the descendants. The legend is not the same as a fairy tale. It contains a particular narration of an incident that really took place, was orally passed from generation to generation and established itself as a product half poetry and half storytelling. 
 

One Saturday, two friends, retired soldiers, drank merrily together. They sat at one´s home, talking...
The Trutnov chronicle states that fire bells were hung in the tower of the Upper Gate since 1555...
Among the men of the former Měšek's army was a servant of the Polish prince named Mnislav. He...
One important and rich man named Stefan Scholz, otherwise called Hübner (later called Stollstaffla)...
It happened in the past that the Trutnov church building shone with a bright light around midnight...
In ancient times, when there was still a deep forest around and only merchants with their carriages...
Sometime around 1850, a strange phenomenon appeared in Trutnov. Rumours spread around the town that...
For centuries, a legend about a large, buried mine at the foot of the Chmelnice hill has been...