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Monday 16 April 2012

The mountain area Catinaccio Latemar and its legends

The legend about Catinaccio and king Laurin

The famous Catinaccio mountain massif is also called the “Rosengarten” or the Rose Garden, this because the rock faces in the sunset often appear in a wonderful red coloring and represent a popular photo motif. There exists a fascinating legend about this mountain group also named “the kingdom of king Laurin”, the legend tells about king Laurin, who was a powerful dwarf living inside the Catinaccio. He lived inside the mountains where he conserved a great treasure, he also possessed a magic hood, which permitted him to become invisible.

The dwarf also possessed a wonderful rose garden, which was protected by a silk golden wire, the roses bloomed throughout the whole year.His rose garden was his most precious treasure and nobody should enter in it. In the neighboured castle there lived a beautiful princess, princess Simhild, king Laurin felt in love with her and used his magic cap to abduct her and to bring her in his kingdom, so Simhild had to live in the midst of King Laurin’s unmeasurable treasures together with him, she was very sad and full of homesickness.

So her brother Dietleib called the king of the Goths Dietrich of Bern, who came to help him, together with some knights they broke the silk wire and trampled king Laurin’s precious rose garden. King Laurin came on his small white steed and fighted with him, at the end Dietrich won the fight and enchained the dwarf, he delivered the princess and brought her back to her brother. After that king Laurin spoke out a spell, which implied that the Rose Garden should never blossom again, nor at day nor at night, but he forgot the twilight. And so the palid mountain walls glows red only in the sunset.

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