castle in Shkodra, Albania. Rozafa was the wife of the youngest of three brothers that could only built the castle after they had to wall her alive. In Serbia, The Building of Skadar also uses the "bricked-in wife" trope. Similar stories exist in Inner Mongolia (related to the Hunnic city of Tongwancheng) and in the Southern Balkans, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece (the Bridge of Arta). In Bulgaria there is also a legend about a master-builder by the name of Manol who flew from the minaret of the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne using eagle wings he crafted. Another similar story is the legend of the Matsue Castle in Japan. By some estimated, there are over 700 local variants of the myth. External links "Mănăstirea Argeşului" (full text in Romanian) References Romanian mythology Romanian folk poetry