A Romanian voivode named Dragos, having crossed the Carpathians and settled with other Romanians on the plain between the mountains and the Black Sea, is joined in 1349 by a Transylvanian voivode named Bogdan, according to a second legend of the Romanian principalities' origins.

Bogdan revolts against his feudal Hungarian overlord and settles on the Moldova River, from which Moldavia derives its name.