ABSTRACT
Two Slavic tribes populated Little Poland in the southern part of modern-day Poland. The Wislanie tribe inhabited the Vistula River in the west, with its center in the town of Wislica, and the Ledzianie tribe lived in the east, on both sides of the modern-day Polish–Ukrainian border. Wincenty Kadlubek cites three legends related to Krak: the slaying of the Dragon of Wawel, which is connected with the founding of Cracow, Krak's son's fratricide, and the legend of Wanda. The Ledzianie tribe dominated other Polish tribes some time before the rise of the Piast dynasty, which was based in Gniezno in Great Poland. Leszek is regarded as a diminutive form of the name Lech, but Polish medieval chroniclers used its Latinized form, Lestco, as a name in its own right. Jan Dlugosz called Leszek I Przemysl and replaced the fantastic Alexander with the more realistic Moravians and Hungarians.
