Agria 37. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2001)

Bencsik János: Mennyire palóc település Polgár, a volt Szabolcs megyei mezőváros?

With the help of a recently published monograph on the Palóc, it is possible to conclude that the residents of Polgár lived in dwellings of the northern type. The furnishings, the way hair was worn and the preferred head-dresses also bear similarities to their equivalents in the Palóc communities of Nógrád County. At the same time there are also similarities in the customs surrounding cows'milk (pecctej = elsőtej), and there are also a number of similarities in dialect. The names used for certain objects also point towards the Palóc community (toll-tallu = tajjú), (vályú = váló). The feelings of identity the people of Polgár felt were much closer to the northern counties than they were to the Great Plain. In saying this, however, they did adopt from the latter the pen-and-garden settlement-type, the firewood store and using them them in the same way as the inhabitants of the plain. 402