Abstract
<jats:p>This work is part of the series “Testimonia najdawniejszych dziejów Słowian” [Testimonies of the Earliest History of the Slavs], an editorial project pursued at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences for almost fifty years. This instalment presents information about the Slavs contained in medieval Hungarian sources. Considering the importance of Polish-Hungarian relations and the tradition of friendship between the two countries and their peoples, which is alive to this day, we decided to expand the scope of our research. Apart from records about the Slavs, we also present the idea of medieval Hungarians about their past, as well as extensive passages concerning not only the civil wars in Hungary after the death of the first crowned ruler of the country, Stephen I (St Stephen), in which the Slavic neighbours were involved, but also the Hungarian interventions in countries referred to as Slavic today. The excerpts from sources appear in the original version with a parallel Polish translation and come in two sections: historiography and hagiography. One novelty is that the “Hungarian-Polish Chronicle” (in both redactions) appears in the hagiography section, which may allow us to see it in a new, and unobvious, context. The final item in the volume of sources is the first Polish translation of the oldest continuous text in Hungarian: “Halotti beszéd és könyörgés” [Funeral Sermon and Prayer]. A separate volume contains a commentary to the excerpted sources: a lexicon which provides information about historical figures, place names and other toponyms as well as selected political terms from the history of Hungary. In this way, we draw on the research traditions of the team that prepared this work – the traditions of “Słownik starożytności słowiańskich” [Lexicon of Slavic Antiquities].</jats:p>