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GHEORGHE TITEICA SCHOOL, ROMANIA
MULTILATERAL COMENIUS PROJECT
ÄWHAT¶S OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW?´
2010-2012
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be
held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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ROMANIAN WATER LEGEND
THE LEGEND OF THE BLACK SEA
Translated by the pupils of class 5D
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A long time ago, when the kingdom
of water was inhabited by mermaids,
there lived a king who had two princes:Tomis and Gibraltar. The king hated
mermaids and so he sent his sons with
two ships to look for them and kill
them. Just before they went their
separate ways, one towards east and
one towards west, they saw two
mermaids playing. Their names were
Neagra (negru in Romanian means
black) and Mediterranean.
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The mermaids had already seen them,
and they had also seen the nets and theharpoons, so they decided to use their
powers to raise huge waves and disappear
in the depth of the waters.
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When the mermaids returned to their
father, they told him what had happened and
he decided that in order to protect his
daughters the best thing to do was to leave
to other places.
Meanwhile, the princes continued their
journeys, Tomis going to the east and
Gibraltar to the west, looking for the
beautiful mermaids.
After a while, the mermaids father got
ill and he wanted to help them before he
died. Knowing that his daughters had fallen
in love with the two princes, he gave them
two magic shells in which they could see
their beloved. But first he warned them:
The love between mermaids and
humans brings only trouble. Your mother was
a human and she found her end being cursed
by her people. After saying that, the old
man closed his eyes and died.
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After their father died, the mermaids
decided to find the princes they loved. They
used the magic shells which showed them that
Neagra should go east and Mediterranean
should go west.
When she arrived near Tomis ship,
Neagra got into his dreams through a spell and
Tomis fell in love with her.
Then, each night, they spent their timetogether, sharing stories about the deep world
of the seas and the humans world.
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One day, during a big storm, Neagra
wanted to make sure Tomis was all right
and came too close to the ship. A sailor
saw her and threw a harpoon into her
heart.With her last powers Neagra startedto sing a song Tomis liked very much.
Hearing the song Tomis plunged into the
waves to help her but they both
disappeared into the dark waters. Since
then that sea was named Marea Neagra
(The Black Sea), after the mermaids name.
When storms start on the Black Sea,
sailors say that the prince is looking for his
beautiful mermaid, and when the sea is
calm they say the prince is listening to the
wonderful songs of the mermaid.
Gibraltar had the same fate: heended beside the beautiful
Mediterranean, crushed by the rocks of a
straight during a storm.
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