The Legend of  Lwiniec

It was June 1106 when the tribe of Lusatian people had a celebration in honour of their god Lwiniec. At that time the emperor of Germany –Henry V attacked the pagan .Just few of them survived a  fierce fight. During the fight the furious emperor threw the idol into the river Szprewa. Lwiniec wanted the revenge so he sent ghosts to the invaders who were terrified to death but the thought of the pagan still remained on their minds.

A few days later the rest of the tribe of the Lusatian people took their idol out of the water and put it on the same place it was kept before the incident.

A few years passed and it was another fight between Henry V and the pagan which again finished with throwing the statue of Lwiniec into the water. At the end of the year 1126 The Lusatian found their idol and hid him somewhere in the Lusatian Mountains. The tribe was attacked all the time by German people so they had to wander from one place to another with their god- Lwiniec. Looking for peace and quiet they came to the area of the Izery Mountains. From the place when the pagan placed their god  the healing spring started to gush.

The priestess of Lwiniec was Silinia – she helped people who were ill who were suffering using the healing water of this spring. After some time people organized a settlement in the neighbourhood of the spring. People lived there peacefully for some time till they heard that the German emperor wanted to attack them once again. The oldest of the settlers – Skarbimir decided that that time they had to fight not to ran away as usual. Skarbimir told Silinia to hide in the mountains with Lwiniec  although she wanted to fight with others. Skarbimir explained to her that Lusatian people  would come back to their settlement and then they would need her help. At the same moment the fight began. The settlement of Lusatian people started to burn but German army didn’t set the fire. Everyone could hear a singing voice but nobody could tell where it was from. The voice diverted the German soldiers’ attention  from the Lusatian tribe as they wanted to find the singer and punish him. Finally, the Germans left the Lusatian alone.

Still nobody knows where Silinia has hidden the Lwiniec whose song helped the Lusatian people to survive.