[gothic-l] Hungarian tale of haliorunnae?

[dirk at SMRA.CO.UK]

I found this text on the following web-site:

http://www.suppressedhistories.net/secret_history/kings_witches.html

Does anybody know if this is based on really Hungarian traditional 
folk-tales? or has the author Arany Janos, taken these 'aliorunna' 
witches from the Getica?

Here is the text:

"Hungarian tradition preserved its own version of the Gothic 
rune-women,conflated with medieval faery-mistress themes. A 
19th-century poem, "The Stag" by Arany János, gives its outlines. The 
beautiful chieftainess Ened had two sons, Hunor and Magwor. They 
hunted a stag which got them lost in the forest. There they saw the 
aliorunna dancing, feasting and doing magic. The brothers abducted 
these faeries, who held aloof for a time, but finally reconciled with 
them. 

They became the ancestors of the Huns. After a time, the group that 
became the Magyars separated from the others in their wanderings. The 
legacy of the priestess-ancestors was that magic and beauty would pass 
down through the female line, but the boys would be stocky and 
bowlegged. Tradition assured Hungarian girls that because they were 
descended from these faeries, theyinherited a certain superiority over 
the boys. [Z Budapest, personal communication, 10/6/95] "


cheers,

Dirk


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