Haymon
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The giant Haymon is a legendary figure from Tyrol .
According to legend, he is the founder of the Wilten monastery in the south of Innsbruck and was sovereign in Tyrol . He is said to have lived between 600 and 900 years and died in the year 878 AD in Wilten Abbey. Haymon's grave at the altar of the Wilten collegiate church is mentioned as early as the 13th century.
He was probably a Bavarian nobleman named Haimo.
Lore
Various traditions have flowed together in the legend of the giant Haymon. In the 15th century, the local legend of the gold-guarding dragon originated in the Sill Gorge east of Bergisel , who was slain by Haymon. The dragon could represent the river Sill, which at that time often led to floods. The dragon's tongue (the horny extension of a swordfish ) is still shown today, in gold, in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. Haymon becomes the sovereign and benefactor of the country. He will u. a. attributed to having reinforced the bridge over the Inn .
A second line of tradition, which emerged around the 16th century, lets Haymon fight and kill the giant Thyrsus , who lived in the area of Zirl and Seefeld . The medicinal Tyrolean rock oil or ichthyol is obtained from its thyrsenic blood . The last words of the giant Thyrsus are said to have been: “Spritz Bluet! Be good for animals and people! ”So Haymon, who comes from the north, defeats the local giant Thyrsus. Another tradition from the 16th century reports that Haymon accepted the Christian faith (baptized by the Bishop of Chur ) and founded Wilten Abbey out of regret. He hands the monastery over to Benedictine monks from the Tegernsee Monastery . A dragon from the Sillschlucht destroyed the structure again and again, until Haymon killed him and tore his tongue out. He eventually joined the Order as a lay brother and remained there until his death. Towards the end of the 16th century, all of these motifs are summarized in the founding legend of Wilten Abbey.
The belief in the historical existence of the giant Haymon was so strong in the 17th century that the abbot of the monastery at the time had Haymon's bones digged in the church. The excavations were unsuccessful, but the church collapsed.
According to a scholarly contemporary interpretation of the 17th century, the giant Thyrsus embodies the Romansh indigenous population and Haymon the invading Bavarians who settled the Inn Valley in the 6th century . In the battle of Haymon against Thyrsus, the subjugation of the Rhaeto-Romanic by the Bavarians is symbolized. Thyrsus is often compared as the peasant giant who fights with a uprooted tree, against Haymon, the knightly giant who fights with the sword.
Larger-than-life statues of the two giants Haymon and Thyrsus, which were created by Nikolaus Moll in 1716–1719 , still flank the entrance portal of the collegiate church in Wilten. A copper engraving from 1677 by JJ Jezl shows Haymon as a knight with sword and dragon's tongue and the signature "Haymon Fundator Monasterii Wilthinensis, obiit Anno D. 878" (Haymon founder of Wilten Monastery, died 878).
various
- Various bars and establishments in the Innsbruck region are named after the giant Haymon.
- In Innsbruck there is the Haymongasse
- The Haymon Verlag has named after the legendary figure
- The name of the Wi- Fi router HiMoNN from the southern German company IABG is a Haymon homophone .
literature
- Michael Forcher, Der Riese Haymon , Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck, 2007
- Wolfgang Morscher, Berit Mrugalska-Morscher, The most beautiful sagas from Tyrol , Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck, 2010
- Jakob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, German legends. With an afterword and bibliographical references by Lutz Röhrich , Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 1998.
- Jeanne Ruland, Feen, Elfen, Gnome - The Book of Nature Spirits , Schirner Verlag, Darmstadt, 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Schuler: Premonstratensian foundation Wilten in Innsbruck. Verlag Schnell & Steiner (Art Guide No. 316), 3. neubearb. Ed., Munich 1974, p. 18
- ↑ Riese Haymon, a traditional inn
- ↑ HiMoNN