It is indisputable that the foundation of any national literature is laid by the spiritual life of the people, and the organ of its genuine expression is the people’s language. While the surrounding nature and historical circumstances have a major part to play in determining a nation’s literature birth and development. Nature forms the nation’s own unique character, temperament and soul features. Nature conditions of life mostly determine the main occupations of the Romanian people: shepherding and agriculture. These occupations predispose to a peaceful life. It is from here the Romanian’s predilection for contemplation, for poetry. The historical conditions in which the Romanian had to fight the invaders, hardened his character. Before our cultured, written literature was born, there existed folk literature which arose in the people, taking shape over the centuries and being formed by a long line of generations. This literature is of extreme importance not just as a mirror of the Romanian people’s creative genius, but also by its importance as a fund, for there are expressed in it: the talent, character, beliefs, customs, joys and sufferings of the Romanians’ inner and outer life. In other words, it is the most vivid mirror of everything the nation feels and reflects on in certain moments of life, it is the most faithful expression of the national character. Romanian folklore pearls about the Danube convince us about the above statements: „The Danube is big, but at times it decreases a lot” („Dunărea e mare, însă câteodată scade foarte mult”), the expression is used for suggesting that everything is relative in life; „To become The Danube itself” or „To become the raging Danube” („A se face Dunăre”, „A se face Dunăre turbată”), this one ilustrating a man’s savage anger, associated with the Danube’s violent, forceful waters; „There will flow much water on the Danube” („Are să curgă multă apă pe Dunăre”), hopeless or long-term waiting for the accomplishment of something important; „One carries water to the Danube” („Cară apă-n Dunăre”), referring to „Sisyphean labour”, as pouring water into the Danube is an  endless effort in vain. The Danube is often evoked as well in Romanian Doinas: „Dear Danube, with soft waves, / You keep calling me to you, / To sing doinas on your bank / As I used to, as a child / In the morning at dawn / I was a few years old boy...”. All the Romanian literature draws its roots, at one time or another, from the autochthonous folklore, as the matchless poet of the Romanians, Mihai Eminescu states: „A true enduring literature, that we would love and which would be original for the others, may be founded only on the vivid tongue of our own nation, on its traditions, customs and the nation’s history, on its genius” [1, p.61 Irimia D. (Mihai Eminescu about literature and art /. Iasi: Junimea, 1970].