Keywords: Lehel Gesta Hungarorum kurtje kuertje horn.jpg Miniature of the story of Lehel's Horn Chronicon Pictum facsimile http //catalog umd edu/F/Q4YDFUII784RJP3H94XD7P8KKQJ5QX1MEGT178GN19UKDYABC3-03201 func find-acc acc_sequence 010592646 edition stored at the University of Maryland library 1360 Anonymus P Magister Artist dead for over 600 years Image Lehel-Kurtje-ChroniconPictum jpg Lehel or Lele or Lél killing his captor According to popular legends before his execution in front of the German ruler he asked to be able to play one last song on his horn When he finished the song in a last effort he rushed the German ruler and split his head open with the horn before he died According to most historians the work was completed between around 1200 and 1230 see en Gesta Hungarorum Lehel vezér homlokon vágja a foglyultartóját iniciálé a Képes Krónikából Der gefangene Lehel sein fänger mit seinem Horn erschlägt PD-old-100-1923 Chronicon Pictum Historiated initials from illuminated manuscripts R Hungarians in Medieval art Lehel's horn R as an initial Lehel -955 |