Makkay János: A magyarság keltezése – A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok közleményei 48. (1994)

Of course it helps if the incomers also have some advantage in military technology. For instance, if the incomers know the techniques of horse riding and the locals do not,..." There is no question about it, Renfrew's description can easily and appropriately be applied to Árpád 's conquerors. I think it was they (first of all the great grandson of Árpád, king Géza and his son Szent István/Saint Stephen) who finally stabilised the Hungarians, and by founding the Hungarian State opened way for establishing a Christian Hungária, the Land of the Holy Virgin. Next year at the opening festivities of the 1100th anniversary of the Árpádian Conquest in the famous fortress in Szabolcs and in the Hímesudvar (hymesuduor i.e. a strong fortress with nicely decorated — probably painted —houses) in Tokaj, Árpád and his people will be fairly commemorated and celebrated as the creators of the state of the Holy Crown of Hungary*. This study is dedicated to their glorious memory. Notes 1 P.B. Golden in The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia. 1990, p. 242. 2 Demonstratio. Idioma Ungarorum et Lapponum idem esse.Hafniae, 1770. 3 Affinitás linguae Hungaricae cum Unguis Fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata. Gttingen,1799. The curious approach and style of present Hungarian history and linguistics can at best be characterized by the shameful fact that neither the work of Sajnovics nor the book of Gyarmathi has ever been translated into Hungarian. However, there are English and German translations of both of them. 4 G. Cannon: Jones's "Sprung from some common source", in Sprung from Some Common Source. Investigations into the Prehistory of Languages, ed. by SM Lamb and E.D. Mitchell. Stanford, 1991, p. 30. 5 P.B. Golden op. cit. pp. 235-236. 6 World languages and human dispersals: a minimalist view. In Transition to modernity. Cambridge, 1994, pp. 15-16. 7 There is no need and place here to introduce the reader to the history of the Ugor-török háború (i.e. the war between the believers and disbelievers of the Finno-Ugric origin of the Hungarian language) mostly related to P. Hunfalvy and J. Budenz two linguists from the second half of the last century. For the person and activity of the famous historian Gy. Pauler see his two comprehensive surveys of early Hungarian history, i.e. A magyar nemzet története az Árpádházi királyok alatt, vols I-IL, Budapest, 1899, 2nd. ed. and also his A magyar nemzet története Szent Istvánig. Budapest, 1900. 8 The original landtaking of the Hungarians, ed. by the Hungarian National Museum on the occasion of the Fourth International Congress of Finno-Ugrist Scholarships in Budapest in 1975, 27 p. Unfortunately its bad and uncorrected English does not 227