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Legend has it that Kinga threw her engagement ring into the Aknaszlatina salt mine in what was then Hungary. The ring miraculously traveled along with salt deposits to Wieliczka, where it was rediscovered. On this spot the miners erected a statue of Saint Kinga, carved entirely from salt, which is 101 meters under the Earth's surface. [9]
Olga (Church Slavonic: Ольга; [3] [a] Old Norse: Helga; [4] c. 890–925 – 11 July 969) [5] was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа.
St. Kinga of Poland (1234–1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania; Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Wladyslaw I the Elbow-High of Poland; Cunigunde of Poland (died 1357), wife of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Brandenburg; Kunigunde von Orlamünde (1303–1382), consort of Otto VI, Count of Weimar ...
Cainnech of Aghaboe, 6th century Abbot, descended from Kings of Ulster; Canute Lavard, Danish prince, son of king Eric I of Denmark and ancestor of Danish monarchs. Casimir, son of Casimir IV of Poland, known as "Saint Casimir of Poland" and "Saint Casimir Jagiełło", in Polish "Święty Kazimierz" (Catholic)
Saint Barbara (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; Church Slavonic: Великомученица Варва́ра Илиопольская; Arabic: القديسة الشهيدة بربارة), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Greek saint and martyr.
Kinga is a female name, a variant of Kunigunde. It may refer to: ... Kinga of Poland, Hungarian saint; Kinga people, an ethnicity in Tanzania; Surname. Sonam Kinga ...
Margaret of Hungary, OP (Margit in Hungarian; January 27, 1242 – January 18, 1270) was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina.She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and, through her father, the niece of the famed Elizabeth of Hungary.
Deirdre - tragic heroine of the Ulster Cycle; when she was born it was prophesied that she would be beautiful, but that kings and lords would go to war over her; Donn Cuailnge - Brown Bull of Cooley, an extremely fertile stud bull over whom the war known as the Táin Bó Cúailnge was fought; Fergus mac Róich - former king of Ulster, now in exile