Three brothers named Lech, Czech, and Rus lived in villages that had become too small for their growing families, so they decided to travel in different directions to find new homes. After many days of traveling through mountains, rivers, forests and wilderness without finding any people, they separated at the top of a mountain. Lech came upon a meadow surrounding a small lake and saw a beautiful white eagle with golden tipped wings perched in a nest on a rocky crag, so he declared they would make their new home there and call it Gniezno, which means "the eagle's nest." Lech's people built many houses there and called themselves Polonians, making it the first historical capital of Poland under