DanubianKnight [2015-10-27 13:39:14 +0000 UTC]
Almost identical story relating to the Curtea de Argeş Monastery:
Manole legend
A legend tells of Radu Negru employing a Meşterul Manole or Manoli as architect. With Manole being unable to finish the walls, the prince threatened him and his assistants with death. At last Manole suggested that they should follow the ancient custom of placing a living woman into the foundations; and that she who first appeared on the following morning should be the victim. The other masons warned their families, and Manole was forced to sacrifice his own wife. Thus the cathedral was built.
When Manole and his masons told the prince that they could always build an even greater building, Radu Negru had them stranded on the roof so that they could not build something to match it. They fashioned wooden wings and tried to fly off the roof, but, one by one, they all fell to the ground. A spring of clear water, named after Manole, is said to mark the spot where he fell.
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DanubianKnight In reply to toyotaTRD [2015-10-28 15:44:03 +0000 UTC]
I think you guess right. Even the most recent genetic studies indicate Balkan peoples are closely related, which means sometime in the past they had common ancestors sharing more or less the same culture, no matter how different are the tongues we speak today- Slavic, like the Bulgarians and the West Balkan peoples, Greek, of course like the Greeks, Illyrian-Thracian, like the Albanians, or Latin, like the Romanians and the Vlachs.
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