Chugur and Tendre reunite and live in the realm of paradise

The reunion of Csongor and Tünde resolves the lovers’ prolonged separation by turning a barren wilderness into a shared home. Csongor wakes to a newly risen palace and flowering garden, finds Tünde among six veiled attendants, and learns that the landscape has been made for him. The scene moves from disorientation to recognition, and from the prospect of punishment to a freely offered future together.

The Changed Wilderness

Shortly after the two figures who had been embracing depart, a great crash accompanies the sudden rising of a shining palace opposite the fairy tree. Csongor wakes. The place he remembers as an uninhabited, sorrowful wilderness is now a flourishing maze, and he faces an alteration so complete that he cannot tell whether he has encountered a fortunate change or a mere vision. The abrupt transformation makes the setting itself the first sign that the separation has reached a turning point.

As he takes in the new surroundings, Csongor notices a chain of roses slipping from his shoulders and a tree whose reflective surface returns him to a smiling past. The palace stands like a crown over the formerly bare land. These sights offer more than spectacle: the rose chain and the memory-bearing tree connect the altered place to the lovers’ history, while the palace makes a future home visible before Csongor knows who has prepared it. Yet he still wonders whether the bright forms are only phantoms mocking his dreams; the scene holds wonder and doubt together until Tünde appears.

Tünde’s Arrival and the Question of Fate

Tünde comes from the palace with six female attendants, all veiled. Csongor recognizes the company as emerging from the luminous dwelling, but Tünde approaches alone. Their first exchange delays recognition: she addresses him as a traveler in the solitude and asks where he comes from and whose child he is. Csongor refuses to name his homeland, instead describing himself as born to a cursed pursuit that drives him restlessly through the world. His answer compresses the hardship of the journey into a condition of ceaseless displacement.

Tünde responds as one who sees the danger of that pursuit. She wishes that the persecuted traveler had avoided this place, and the conversation turns toward punishment and death. Csongor says he would accept death gladly from her lips; Tünde answers that death is no punishment for someone who longs to die. The possibility of a final ending is therefore raised at the very moment when reunion is near, giving the encounter a grave alternative to the happiness that follows.

Tünde then offers another fate if the one already under discussion would be unwelcome or harsh. The scene establishes that Csongor’s future is not simply imposed on him: Tünde frames a choice, and the alternative becomes concrete when she asks him to look around. The beautiful tree and the palace on the sorrowful field await him as his own; she declares herself their fortunate creator. The transformed wilderness is thus not only the setting of their reunion but a gift and a proposed life together.

Recognition and Reunion

Only after offering the place does Tünde suddenly draw aside her veil. Csongor recognizes her, exclaiming that she is truly Tünde, and the language of uncertainty gives way to certainty: after so much suffering, he can rest against her. He embraces her, weeps against her, and speaks of receiving her immortal kisses. The physical gestures carry the recognition beyond speech, making the long-awaited reunion bodily as well as verbal.

Tünde answers that words grow weary and reason is insufficient to express the happiness in which the heart feels, knows, suspects, and desires. Instead of trying to explain their joy, she invites Csongor to rest in her arms and asks to rest in his. Their shared stillness answers the earlier image of Csongor driven restlessly through the world: the pursued traveler now has a place and a companion with whom to be at rest.

A Shared Future

The lovers’ ending is presented as a mutual commitment to live in pleasure, undisturbed, and to prefer that life to exchange with the world. The palace and flowering landscape, first encountered as a baffling transformation, become the material form of their future together. The scene therefore resolves separation not by returning the lovers to their earlier circumstances, but by establishing a new home in the place that had appeared desolate.

The ending also completes the scene’s movement from uncertainty toward settled intimacy. Csongor initially questions whether the bright garden and palace are unreal; Tünde’s unveiled face confirms the truth of the encounter, and her gift gives it a lasting setting. His former pursuit and the threatened possibility of death yield to shared rest. Happiness is not explained as an abstract reward: it is enacted in the embrace, in the invitation to remain in one another’s arms, and in the resolve to live together without disturbance.