Szeredai: A Hidden Protagonist in János Arany’s The Love of Toldi
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The essay presents one of the characters of János Arany’s epic poem, The Love of Toldi, completed in 1879. The middle part of the Toldi trilogy is set in 1350, during the reign of King Louis I, after the murder of his brother, Prince Andrew. At this time, Hungarian soldiers were fighting in Italy. The protagonist, Miklós Toldi, met an outlander in disguise, under the pseudonym Szeredai, meaning ‘born on Wednesday’. This character is connected to Arany’s earlier works on many layers. He is a bard who plays the koboz (an early Hungarian type of the lute) and is a survivor of a family tragedy. Eventually, he finds his new homeland in Arany’s birthplace, Nagyszalonta.
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Csörsz, R. I. (2025). Szeredai:: A Hidden Protagonist in János Arany’s The Love of Toldi. Antikvitás & Reneszánsz, (15), 243–256. https://doi.org/10.14232/antikren.2025.15.243-256
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