Dolasilla
Dolasilla is a heroine from the South Tyrolean world of legends , more precisely from the Ladin national epic from the empire of the Fanes . She was an important war hero for the Fanes people. But at first she was only the king's daughter in the Fanes Empire. Her father, the king, was a power-hungry man, always looking for gold and silver. When he and his people are looking for these precious metals near Canazei, he is able to capture a group of dwarves , from whom he takes some items that are obviously very important to the dwarves. Dolasilla feel sorry for these dwarfs, she also fears their possible revenge. So she gives the stolen things back to the dwarves without her father's knowledge. Out of gratitude, the dwarves give her a white armor to protect her from arrows. They predict that she will become a great war hero. But they also warn. Should the armor ever turn dark, she shouldn't go into battle, otherwise she would die. After all, she will only be a war hero as long as she does not marry. In addition, the dwarves tell Dolasilla that something will soon grow on the nearby “Silbersee” ( lad. Lek d'ardyent ).
The king is initially annoyed that Dolasilla has given the stolen things back to the dwarves, but the prospect that his daughter will become a war hero quickly cheers him up again. After two years he lets see what the Silbersee is all about and what has grown up there. His people find silver reeds around the Silbersee. The Fanes people discover that infallible magic arrows can be made from them.
With Dolasilla, her white armor and the infallible magic arrows, the Fanes people storm from victory to victory. Out of gratitude, the king has his daughter crowned with a valuable gemstone on the Kronplatz . But in the dream Dolasilla appears to one of the enemies she has killed. He warns them. If they go into battle with magic, it cannot go well in the long run. Dolasilla and her mother, the queen, are then frightened, but the king insists that Dolasilla continue to fight with the magic arrows.
In the meantime the magician "Spina de Mul" tries to forge a new big alliance against the Fanes Empire. He is after the valuable gemstone with which Dolasilla was crowned on the Kronplatz. He can win the hero "Ey de Net" ('Night Eye'). The plan is to kill Dolasilla in the next battle. But when Ey de Net sees Dolasilla in her white armor on the warhorse as a heroine, he is deeply impressed by her. Spina de Mul, however, shoots a magic arrow at Dolasilla from behind Ey de Net and seriously injures her.
Ey de Net feels so betrayed by Spina de Mul. After the battle he turns to the Fanes people and looks for Dolasilla. Obviously, your tank can only repel normal arrows, not magic arrows. But now dwarves are forging a large shield that can also hold off magic arrows. From now on Ey de Net wears this shield for Dolasilla in battle. Ey de Net is now her comrade in arms, they only go into battle together.
Ey de Net finally asked her father for Dolasilla's hand. But the king knows the prophecy that Dolasilla will lose her fighting power if she gets married. In addition, out of greed for gold, he sold the Fanes Empire to the enemy. He has promised them to see that his daughter Dolasilla will not go into battle in the next big battle. This should make the victory of the enemy over the Fanes people easy, should the Fanes people even dare to go into battle. To prevent his daughter from fighting, he simply expels Ey de Net of the empire. He himself retreats to Mount Lagazuoi to await the defeat of his people and then to receive the gold from the enemy as a reward for his betrayal.
When Dolasilla learns that Ey de Net had to leave the Reich, she sadly rides across the Armentara meadows (near today's Wengen ). She meets a group of strange, neglected children (so the somewhat xenophobic portrayal in the story). The children beg until, out of pity, she gives each of the children one of her infallible arrows. Since she only has a few magic arrows left, she loses all of her arrows. But the children were sent by the magician Spina de Mul. This is how the enemies came into possession of the infallible magic arrows.
The decisive battle on the "Pralongià" ('long meadow', east of Corvara ) is imminent. The morning before the battle, the armor turned black. According to the dwarves' prophecy, death is now before her, she goes into battle. Besides, her comrade-in-arms Ey de Net was also missing. But at the pleading of the desperate Fanes people, Dolasilla does not think she can evade her duty.
The enemies do not know about the black armor and cannot find Dolasilla, who they suspect to be in a white armor, immediately. But finally they realize their mistake and with the help of the infallible magic arrows that Spina de Mul Dolasilla had taken, they kill Dolasilla after a hard fight and with great losses. With this the battle for the Fanes people is lost, a blow from which the Fanes empire will no longer recover.
Dolasilla's father, who is waiting at the Lagazuoi, knows nothing of any of this. He thinks that the victory over the Fanes has easily fallen into the lap of the enemy and is now hoping for his reward. But the enemies feel betrayed for their part, Dolasilla has fought and they have suffered great losses. They don't think about giving the gold to the king. Rather, the treacherous king, the “false king” ( falza rego ), after he has grasped all the misfortune, turns into stone. You can still see it today at the Falzarego Pass , on the Lagazuoi.
literature
- Ulrike Kindl : fairy tales from the Dolomites. Eugen Diederichs Verlag Munich 1992 ISBN 3-424-01094-4
- Karl Felix Wolff : Dolomite legends. Legends and traditions, fairy tales and stories of the Ladin and German Dolomite inhabitants. With two excursions, Berner Klause and Lake Garda. Unchanged reprint of the sixteenth edition published in 1989 by the Tyrolia publishing house. Publishing house Athesia Bozen 2003. ISBN 88-8266-216-0