Hadobás Sándor szerk.: Az Érc- és Ásványbányászati Múzeum Közleményei 1. (Rudabánya, 2004)

Tanulmányok - Hála József - Landgraf Ildikó: A háromszáz özvegyasszony tánca. Egy bányászmondánk néhány történeti, irodalomtörténeti és folklorisztikai vonatkozása

Vastagh Gábor 1983 Hozzászólás Benke István cikkéhez. Bányászati és Kohászati Lapok- Bányászat 116: 134. Versényi György 1880 A bányavidéki néphagyományok gyűjtéséről. (Elmondatott a körmöcbányai magyar egyesület 1880 március 28-án tartott estélyen). In —: Beszédek. Losonc. 43-76. 1888 Költemények. Budapest. 1890 A bányarémről. Ethnographia 1:335-345. Wlislocki, Heimich 1893 Aus dem Volksleben der Magyaren. München. The dance of three hundred widows Some historical, literary historical and folkloristic aspects of a Hungarianminers ' legend The paper examines and analyses the roots of the historical legend type "The dance of three hundred widows", its variants, its links to dance traditions and its adaptations in literature. Both in theme and the way it was passed down this is a miners' legend: the heroes of this story about a mine tragedy and the widows who learnt of their husbands' death while dancing at a festivity, the storytellers of its folklore variants and those who passed it on were miners. The authors give an overview of the folklore variants of the legend type and its appearance in the written sources. Ungarischer od er Dacianischer Simplicissimus by Georg Daniel Speer (1683) played an important role in the dissemination of this story type. Seeking the roots of the story, the authors presume that this legend type was widely known in Europe in the past. Its basis may have been reports on the major mine catastrophe causing the deaths of several hundred miners that occurred in Goslar (Rammelsberg), Germany in the Middle Ages. The Goslar story probably reached Hungary from German sources and was enriched here with distinctive local sources. It is not possible to determine from exactly which mining area the story spread, but it was probably adapted to the memory of different mine catastrophes. Nothing is known of the tragic event in Nagybánya and Torockó on which the Hungarian variant of the legend type is based, or of when it occurred, but there are guesses concerning the tragedy in Telkibánya which the authors discuss.