1711 – 1713Jánošík: what the trial record actually saysJánošík: čo naozaj hovorí súdny spis
SlovakiaSlovensko
When the fighting stopped the northern mountains were full of discharged soldiers with no land and no work, and robber bands worked the passes for years. Juraj Jánošík, born at Terchová in the Malá Fatra in 1688, served briefly as a soldier and then led one of those bands across Liptov and Orava; he was caught, tried at Liptovský Mikuláš and executed there in 1713, aged twenty-five. The trial record survives, and it is dry reading — it says nothing whatever about robbing the rich to give to the poor. That part was added by nineteenth-century writers who needed a Slovak hero, and it is worth being able to tell which half of a national story is evidence and which half is what people wanted to be true.Keď boje utíchli, severné hory boli plné prepustených vojakov bez pôdy a bez práce a na priesmykoch roky vyčíňali zbojnícke družiny. Juraj Jánošík sa narodil roku 1688 v Terchovej v Malej Fatre, krátko slúžil ako vojak a potom jednu z tých družín viedol po Liptove a Orave; chytili ho, súdili v Liptovskom Mikuláši a roku 1713 ho tam aj popravili — mal dvadsaťpäť rokov. Súdny spis sa zachoval a je to suché čítanie: o tom, že bral bohatým a dával chudobným, v ňom nie je ani slovo. Túto časť dopísali až spisovatelia 19. storočia, ktorí potrebovali slovenského hrdinu — a vedieť rozlíšiť, ktorá polovica národného príbehu je doklad a ktorá je to, čo si ľudia priali, sa oplatí.
Jánošík: what the trial record actually saysJánošík: čo naozaj hovorí súdny spis
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