DADAJ

LEGEND

For guests wishing to rest at our settlement, the names of the houses may be a little strange, maybe not as obvious as they are to us, the hosts. As the name of the lake on which our houses are situated is connected with an old legend, we’d now like to tell it to you in a few words. It’s a beautiful story of love and loss. About the love of a young man called Krystek and a girl named Dadaj. Krystek, though he was as poor as a church mouse, never stopped dreaming of a beautiful and good wife, a warm home, and a bunch of children. When, one day, an old man came to his house and offered to give him his daughter in marriage along with a fortune that would allow him to live a prosperous life, Krystek was ecstatic. The old man made only one condition: the young man’s heart could never change. It would always have to be open to helping people in need. As time went by, Krystek forgot about the promise he gave the old man, and felt an increasing dislike for the poor people who visited him. One cloudy day, his beloved wife sadly declared that she had to go back to her father. Krystek tried to stop her but she wouldn’t listen to him. At the old man’s feet, a crevice appeared and the girl fell into it in the pouring rain. Then water gushed out of the crevice, and, after a while, a lake with a gorgeous silvery surface was formed in that place. Krystek realized that his real treasure hadn’t been his wealth but rather his wife’s love. But it was too late. Every day, he went to the lake and called: Dadaj! Dadaj! But no answer ever came. People say that, to this day, one can hear the longing cry for the woman he loved and for the love he lost through his own stupidity.