and wolfhounds, others carried birds of prey, falcons, gyrfalcons and buzzards on their shoulders. The two armies clashed on May 9, 869, the fight lasted all day. Bird wings darkened the sky. In the battle Tyr killed Vlastislav, before his death, Vlastislav's soul flew out of his mouth and flew in the surrounding tree branches. Tyr then lost his horse and was killed himself. Encouraged by Tyr's victory, Czechs won the battle. They built a monument to Tyr on top of artificial mound Krliš and buried him there. About twenty thousand men clashed in the battle, which was a tenth of the population of the then Bohemia. Durynk and Neklan After the Lucko War, Duke Neklan had mercy on the orphan Zbyslav of the defeated leader Vlastislav. Neklan let him be raised by a man called Durynk, who used to serve Vlastislav, but Neklan trusted him. The first winter after the death of Vlastislav, Durynk cut a hole in the ice of a frozen river and on the pretext of seeing a fish forced Zbyslav to lie on the ice. Then he killed him and took his severed head to Neklan, thinking he would get a reward by ridding him of his last enemy. Instead, Neklan was frightened and shouted: "Choose death yourself! That's my reward!". Durynk hanged himself on an alder, which was then called the "Durynk Alder". Legends of the Christian era King Svatopluk King Ječmínek Flag of St. Wenceslas Bruncvík Opatovice treasure Old Prague Old Prague Magician Žito King Wenceslas IV. Old Town Orloj About Dalibor From the Jewish town Sad places Golem Jan Žižka Kutná Hora miners White Lady Pink glade God's judgment Juraj Jánošík From ancient prophecies Sibylline Oracles Prophecy of a Blind Lad Prophecy of Havlas Pavlata Various prophecies Blaník knights Adaptations Puppet animation film Old Czech Legends based on the stories, directed by Czech animator Jiří Trnka, was released in 1953. In 1961, the book with Trnka's illustrations was published. In 2009, a Czech-American historical-fantastic feature film, The Pagan Queen about Princess Libuše, was made. Translations The book has been translated into Russian (1899, Старинныя сказания чешскаго народа; 1987, Старинные чешские сказания), Slovak (1951, Staré povesti české), Romanian (1955, Vechi povestiri cehe), English (1963, Legends of Old Bohemia; 1992, Old Czech Legends), Mongolian (1965, Эртний Чех домог тууж), German (1975, Böhmens alte Sagen), Bulgarian (1978, Старинни чешки предания), Hungarian (1984, Régi cseh mondák),