1573 – 1600 A new settlement under Wallachian lawNová osada na valašskom práve

Bodružal was founded late — somewhere between 1573 and 1598, as a new settlement of the Makovica estate — and it appears in writing for the first time in 1600, spelled Bedruczoua. The settlers were Rusyn herding families brought in under Wallachian law, which gave them real privileges in exchange for real duties: they grazed sheep and cattle, they served as guards and couriers on the Hungarian–Polish border, and they handed the lord a twentieth of what their herds produced. Because they were Eastern Christians they paid no church tithe. These high, cold valleys had been left empty until somebody was willing to live in them on those terms.Bodružal vznikol neskoro — niekedy medzi rokmi 1573 a 1598 ako nová osada panstva Makovica — a prvý raz sa v písomnostiach objavuje v roku 1600 v podobe Bedruczoua. Osadníkmi boli rusínske pastierske rodiny privedené na valašské právo, ktoré im dávalo skutočné výsady výmenou za skutočné povinnosti: pásli ovce a dobytok, konali strážnu a kuriérsku službu na uhorsko-poľskom pomedzí a vrchnosti odovzdávali dvadsatinu z toho, čo im stáda vydali. Ako východní kresťania neplatili cirkevný desiatok. Tieto vysoké studené doliny zostávali prázdne dovtedy, kým v nich niekto nebol ochotný žiť za takýchto podmienok.