Miklos Zrinyi

Szigeti veszedelem recounts in epic fashion the Battle of Szigetvar, in which a vastly outnumbered Croatian-Hungarian army tried to resist a Turkish invasion. The battle concluded when Captain Zrinyi's forces, having been greatly depleted, left the fortress walls in a famous onslaught. Approximately four hundred troops forayed into the Turkish camp. The epic concludes with Zrinyi killing Sultan Suleiman I, before being gunned down by janissaries. Being in the epic tradition, specifically modeled on the Iliad, it opens with an invocation of a muse (in this case, the Virgin Mary), and often features supernatural elements.

Szigeti Veszedelem

George Gömöri

Part chronicle of war, part theological treatise, this poem also has episodes of romance and adventure, as each side is at once humanized and made larger than life.

Miklos Zrinyi

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