My turn at the Daily Hungarian Lesson

I have a Hungarian student. Her dad is so great, so rugged Hungarian. I can hardly understand what his is saying most the time, but at our last visit he let me know that my name was very noble. I mentioned that I heard it was like "Smith" here in America. He informed me that is very inaccurate. It's not that it is common, it is noble. The most cherished and remembered royal family had this last name. He said there is a poem every child has to memorize in their school days, and then he recited it. Sure enough, there in the middle was our last name. It sounded so cool to hear him say this poem from memory. He said it is commonly known as one of the country's greatest poems ever. The author wrote it as a sort of ode or thank you to the royal family. He wouldn't translate it for me because it would lose it's beauty. What a guy.