The Well of LoveStudňa lásky
Tradition has it that a young Turkish nobleman named Omar came to Trenčín to ransom Fatima, the woman he loved, who was being held in the castle. The lord of the rock had no use for gold. His castle, he said, had every luxury but water — every drop had to be hauled up the cliff. Bring me a well, he told Omar, and you may take her. Tradícia hovorí, že mladý turecký šľachtic menom Omar prišiel do Trenčína vykúpiť Fatimu, ženu, ktorú miloval a ktorú držali na hrade. Pán skaly však o zlato nestál. Jeho hrad vraj má všetok prepych okrem vody — každú kvapku bolo treba vyniesť po brale hore. Vyhĺbte mi studňu, povedal Omarovi, a môžete si ju odviesť.
Omar and his companions cut into the rock and kept cutting, for years, by hand. When water finally came, the story goes, Omar carried the first cupful to the lord and said: you have water, but you still have no heart. There is a real shaft to point at while the tale is told — sunk many tens of metres through solid limestone, a genuinely remarkable piece of medieval engineering that historians attribute to the castle’s garrisons rather than to any lovelorn stranger. The legend and the hole in the rock have simply grown together.Omar so svojimi druhmi sa zahryzol do skaly a hĺbil ďalej — roky, holými rukami. Keď sa konečne objavila voda, hovorí príbeh, doniesol Omar prvý pohár pánovi hradu a povedal: vodu máš, ale srdce stále nemáš. Pri rozprávaní sa dá ukázať na skutočnú šachtu — vyhĺbenú mnoho desiatok metrov cez tvrdý vápenec, na naozaj pozoruhodné stredoveké dielo, ktoré historici pripisujú hradným posádkam, nie zaľúbenému cudzincovi. Povesť a diera v skale jednoducho zrástli dokopy.
You have your water. You still have no heart.Vodu máš. Srdce stále nemáš.
