The study surveys the source places connected to the origin of the family and indicates the fact how the tradition was formed out within the family according to which Vecellin - a German adventive who has defeated Koppány - was the ancestor of the family. The bigger part of the study - employing new sources and aspects - is dealing with the genealogy and estates of the two main branches of the family in Vas County (the Pornó and the Ják branches) that founded monasteries. The study republishes - according to the 1240 transcription - the text of the royal document dated in 1221 that permitted the incorporation by Szentgotthárd of the monastery at Pornó. This till now has only been known from a 18^th century transcription. Identifies the estates mentioned in the document and follows their history, interprets the legal background of the royal permission and seeks an explanation for the founding intentions of the Ják monastery. Draws a more detailed picture about the monastery founder, reeve Márton, his functions, family relations as well as the emoluments of the Ják monastery and the activity of reeve Márton's sons and grandchildren.
 

          The St. Martin church at Szombathely has since the Middle Ages been considered as the birthplace of St. Martin. The sedentary stone statue of the bishop was placed in the St. Martin Chapel on the altar according to the report in 1573 of Carolus Clusius, the famous botanist. It is likely that the stone statue of the saint was used as reliquary as the relic of St. Martin was preserved in the church. It is sure that the Virgin Mary devotional statue was in the church as early as in the 17^th century; it is the oldest altar statue in the existing furniture. Pál Eszterházy related about the statue in 1696. The painted wooden statue is wearing ornamental renaissance clothes; Mary has a star-wreath on her head, and wears a long, flower-patterned dress, apron and cloak. She has in her hands a sceptre and she has in her arms the child Jesus. A miraculous power was attributed to the statue; its cult was flourishing in the 17^th-18^th century. Pilgrims visited it and spread her picture on prints. The Szombathely's citizens were often bequeathing to the statue money, clothes and jewellery.
 
 

          This custom which is a parody of the real weddings can only take place if there were no weddings - in the smaller villages during the whole year or in case of larger settlements in the period of the weddings that is traditionally in the opentide. The custom's central and permanent accessory is a huge pine-log that is pulled through the village by young people dressed in wedding-clothes followed by the "wedding-guests" also dressed in masquerade clothes. The original function of this custom is to warn and satirise in a joking manner those young people who are already in the right age but still not married and to draw their attention to their duty in this respect.
          The tradition is known not only at the Slovenians living along the Rába River but in the Hungarian villages of Õrség and the border regions of Vas County as well. Along the Hungarian-Austrian border toward north on the both sides of the border up to the Germans living on the Moson Plain ("Hienz's"), at the Croatians in Gradi>e and it is known among Hungarians too.

          The German ethnic groups living on the plains of Moson are a relatively closed unit from the point of view of the ethnography. The hymnbooks represent valuable parts of their rich culture and can be found in the protestant and Catholic German communities as well. Originally, the immigrating Germans brought these books to Hungary and later on the communities took care of the book supply. The books included biblical verses and religious songs and were rich illustrated. In these books we can find economical records, meteorological prophecies as well as practices regarding animal and human medicine and religious folk drama plays. One of the most valuable codices is the so-called Codex of Mosonszentjános that is kept in the Library of the General Benedictine Abbacy at Pannonhalma.
 

          The study presents the life sacrifice of Ferenc Kovács, a curate of Gencsapáti (1932-1958). The analyse does not content with the sheer event description - in a more superficial approach the story would hardly be more than an "usual" AVO-history; the faith-martyrdom becomes a whole for us together with the authentic picture of the spirit and the intellect. We can learn from this first part of the monograph how a young man undertaking the pursuance of the Christ is preparing for the priest's vocation and what kind of "foundations", family background he has and which historical constraints is he struggling against.
 
 

          The study commemorates József Végh (1912-1997) dialect researcher, doctor of linguistics and his career by publishing his letters relating to the Transdanubian region. It emphasises his dialect researching activity performed in the Õrség region as a result of which the Linguistic Atlas of Õrség and Hetés has born. József Végh's great merit is that he co-ordinated the collection of the geographical names and the organisation of the voluntary dialect material collection.
 

          The series entitled: "Archaeological Topography of Hungary" has no Vas County volume. Dr. Gábor Bándi (1939-1988) archaeologist, the director of the Vas County Museum decided in 1980 for this purpose to start the preparation work for the topography of Vas County. Meanwhile and since then - between 1960 and 1994 - large amount (several quintals) of archaeological findings and information has been collected in the Savaria Museum during the land surveys and from donations. Now we are publishing only a single slice affecting the period mentioned in the title. Especially those that are relating to the geographical small-regions (out of 83 settlements): 1. Vas-Mountain and Kõszeghegyalja, 2. Pinka-Plain. In the case of the first we had suitable findings from four villages, and at the second we had findings from eight villages. We have performed the localisation of several Árpád-Age villages and we are going to publish our most typical findings.
 
 

          The letter, the opportunity, the moment are the art of contingency. We obtain an age-picture of Weöres, we can learn the spiritual background of his works, sometimes even the circumstances of their conception. His relationships with his masters and coevals as well as the fine network of his attachments. We can understand that he was on familiar grounds both in the Universe and at Csönge because he knew: there might be countless centres in the world but the existence could have only one - the personality. He widened universal his personality, by sucking up the essential fluids of the millennial tradition. He answered the questions of the existence with the words of the tradition. However he did it in the most modern form. His letters as well as his poems are evidencing that he was not actually developing but he was rather consummating. In these two volumes a new star-collection of the Weöres-Universe came into our scope.