Shape of collected folk-tales in Kosmas and Hájek

The aim of this graduation thesis is to record the slight differences in the myths compiled by Kosmas and Hájek. Vast attention is given to the analysis of the main storylines in the legends regarding Libuše, Přemysl Oráč and the girls´war, especially to the differences in the way the both authors tell their stories. The goal of the thesis is, by pointing to this diversity, to manifest in particular the shift in the purpose legends had in the era of Kosmas and in the epoch of Hájek. The thesis also tries to discover the impact of myths on the society. It records the shifts in the interpreting them during time and various methods of investigation. Last but not least, the thesis aims to point to the similarities in national legends and world-known myths. This similarity might than explain one of the real possibilities how national legends (had) originated