Székely Himnusz [English translation]

Who knows where, where destiny takes us

On a rough road in the dark night

Lead your people to victory once more

Prince Csaba1 along the Trail of Stars2

A handful of Székely eroding like the cliffs

On the troubled seas of the battles of nations

Our heads are submerged a hundred times by the tide

Don't let Transylvania be lost, Our God!

As long as Hungarian-speaking people live

Our souls can't be broken

Let us be born anywhere, anywhere in our world

Let it be our fate, good or bad

Our bitter past has been a thousand years of misfortune

The Tatar-Turk war, the rabid Austrians3

Let us go home to Székely on Hungarian land

Free to live happily in our homeland

Sweet mother of God, we beg you

Save these people, these bleeding nations!

Let us go home to Székely on Hungarian land

Free to live happily in our homeland

Who knows where destiny takes us from here

To national borders, over the ocean

Come back, our prince, the people here are waiting for you

Székely, your nation, in the Carpathians

A hero loses his liberty in Segesvár4

Must look to the people of Mádefalvá5

Your rich land's treasured people are alive and being ravaged

Your son often has no bread

Already one and a half thousand years since Csaba's people

Lived through many storms, their cruel fate

An external enemy often tore them down

Never understanding at home

A handful of Székely eroding like the cliffs

On the troubled seas of the battles of nations

Our heads are submerged a hundred times by the tide

Don't let Transylvania be lost, Our God!

1. Said to be the son of Attila the Hun in Hungarian mythology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Csaba2. i.e. the Milky Way3. "Long hair" referring to the wigs of Austrian soldiers, as opposed to the kuruc, the anti-Habsburg rebels.4. A town in Transylvania currently in Romania. Segesvár is the Hungarian name, while the Romanian name is Sighișoara.5. A Transylvanian village in Romania. The Romanian name is Siculeni.