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Gemäss Legende wurde die Frau eines der drei Erbauer in die Burgmauern eingemauert, damit diese nicht immer wieder zusammenfielen. Ein Teil des Körpers soll aber noch sichtbar gewesen sein, damit sie ihrem Kind die Brust geben konnte.

Nora of Kelmendi can be called the Helen of Albania, for one of the biggest wars was "caused" by her beauty. But she can be called the Albanian Brunhilde too, for she herself was a warrior and refused to fall in love with the enemies of her people. There are two versions of Nora and both versions end with her killing the Pasha (a Bosnian man ) who was the leader of the Ottoman Army and who had taken a Public Oath to put the whole Maltsia up in flames Nora did not become his wife. He did not care how.

The events happened around the year of the Lord 1620. Nora is said to have been abandoned by her father at her birth for he, a Noble Fighter, wanted a son who would grow to become another fighter for the fatherland. Nora's aunt found the abandoned baby and raised her as a boy. Nora's biological father, unknowingly, trained her as a fighter. When Nora grew up, there was no way of hiding her boobs behind her clothes, so everybody knew she was a boy. Everybody wanted to marry her. Her fame spread through the whole country. Pasha, the Ottoman official, heard of her too. One day Nora came down to the Shkodra city with her parents. Pasha came out of the Rozafa Castle and saw her. He fell in love. Initially, he wanted to marry her by the laws of the Albanian Canon, but Nora's family replied that the Canon did not allow for marriages with non-albanians. Pasha was not used to be refused by his officers. He had a harem full of women from all over the world. The Bosnian Dude went mad. "I'll burn all of Maltsia to ashes he said". That was not the first or the last time for Maltsia to be burned to the ground, so nobody got really scared. It was bound to happen either for taxes, solders or the refusal of the law anyway. But the Pasha was serious. He got a huge army and settled to go toward Maltsia. Nora had proven to be a warrior, then had proven to be the most Beautiful Girl, now it was her turn to prove that she was wise. So she devised the plan how to kill the Mad Bosnian Pasha, or the madly in-love dude. This is what happened. Nora pretended to want to marry the Pasha without the permission of her family. Dressed with the girl-xhubleta, a dress made of white and either black or dark plue stripe running horozontally, she want to Pasha's tent. Seeing her, the Pasha fell on his knees and began to pray to the heavens that had rewarded him one more time by the almighty. Pasha ordered his troops to stop the march and rest. While everything was quiet around the Pasha's tent, Nora pulled a dagger that her father had given it to her. That was a dagger that the father himself had inherited from his own father, and Nora's grandfather from his father. The dagger was in the family longer than anyone could remember. It was used strictly in wars, that is to only to kill people. People said that the dagger had magic powers. On Nora's hand, though, it turned out to be a regular dagger. She stabbed the Pasha a few times, and ran, but he survived the stabs and followed her. He could not catch her, though, because as the plan had devised, the five Tribes of Maltsia attached the army unexpectedly and Nora returned safely to Maltsia. While the war was going on, the Pasha took a few solders and followed Nora to her home. There comes in the second legend. It is said that Nora never went to the tent, but as the men were fighting on one side and the Ottomans had sneaked a part of their army to attack the villages, she led an army of 300 women against the Ottomans who had decided to burn, rob and rape. It is said that Nora had a duel with Pasha and she killed him. In both versions, however, Nora kills the man. And in both stories he is from Bosnia and is called Vutsi Pasha. It is proven historically that around 1620, the Bosnian Pasha, Vutsi Pasha, lead an expedition against the Maltsia people and there are documents that say that a woman was one of the most distingished warriors. Anyhow, both stories are interesting, and as they are legends, the whole history of Maltsia people should be seen as mythological for they are, after all, the creaters of Albanian Epic, which is nothing more nothing les but a great mythological saga.