Ileana Cosânzeana

[4][5] Folklorist Lazar Saineanu translated her name into French as Hélène aux cheveux d'or (sic) ("Helen with Golden Hair").

[6] Romanian linguist Sorin Paliga also lists several alternate names for the character: Ileana Simziana, Floarea Florilor ("the Flower of Flowers"); Frumoasa lumii ("The Beauty of the World"); Zâna dobrozâna (zână, from Latin Diana, meaning 'fairy', and, according to him, the Slavic word dobr 'good').

She is sometimes called Rora and Rozuna, which, according to Paliga, contains the word for "dew", which - he argues - connects her to a dawn and vegetation deity.

[7] Another theory proposes partial origin from a Late Latin Constantiana, perhaps influenced by the Greek pronunciation *Cosandiana.

Ileana Cosânzeana succeeds in defeating the evil forces because she is brave, smart, modest and diligent.

[10] On the other hand, several scholars argue for a lunar aspect of Ileana Cosanzeana, also due to her possible etymology that connects her to the Roman goddess Diana.

Teodorescu, where the moon tries to stall the wedding by asking the Sun to create an iron bridge over the Black Sea and a ladder to the sky.

In the myth, she is a beautiful princess kidnapped by the Zmeu (a Dragon equivalent), who locks her in his castle and waits for her to give in to his marriage proposal.