Kingdom of the Fanes

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The legend of the empire of the Fanes is considered the national epic of the Ladins and is therefore an important part of Ladin literature . The following illustration is an abbreviated reproduction based on Karl Felix Wolff .

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The Fanessage describes the conflict between the aggressive male members of the royal family and the peaceful female members. The former are in alliance with the eagle people, the latter with the marmot people . With their war policy and in alliance with the eagles, the kings of the Fanes can continue to expand the empire of the Fanes. But this creates a counter alliance of more and more neighboring peoples. The magician Spina de Mul , the mule skeleton , also fights on the side of the enemy . It is so named because it usually takes the form of a half-decayed mule.

The Fanes people have Dolasilla , the king's daughter, and Ey de Net ( night eye) as war heroes . The latter wants to marry Dolasilla and is then cast out by the king. Dolasilla has a number of infallible arrows and a white armor. She was prophesied that she would not be allowed to go into battle if the tank should turn black because otherwise she would die.

The decisive battle is getting closer and closer. With a ruse, Spina de Mul Dolasilla can take away her infallible arrows, which he then distributes to riflemen of the opposing alliance. The morning before the battle, Dolasilla sees that her shell has turned black. But the desperate Fanes people urge them to go into battle. First of all, the enemy archers cannot find Dolasilla in battle because they are looking for a white tank and do not know that it has turned black. But finally they recognize Dolasilla, shoot the infallible arrows at her and kill her. With that the battle for the Fanes people is lost. With the help of the marmots, the queen can retreat into the underground passages of the Fanes with a small flock. But the king, who treacherously dealt with the enemy, turned to stone and has since been seen as a false king (old Lad. Falza rego, Ladin fautso rego) at the Falzarego pass (an etiological part of the legend).

The Fanes cause would not be lost yet, because there is still Lidsanel . He was prophesied that he had three wishes open in his life. He would then have to wish for the infallible arrows and then he could rebuild the empire of the Fanes. But every time a Vivana Lidsanel releases a wish, the latter forgets the arrows and wishes for something else. After the third time, the arrows are lost forever. The people of the Fanes are now also lost or they still live with the marmots underground under the Fanes and wait for the promised time .

Sites of Fanessage

The Fanessage sites are on or near the Fanes plateau . From Lake Braies there was a boat-accessible entrance into the underground parts of the Fanes Empire. The decisive battle, which was lost for the Fanes people, took place on the Pralongia (according to the collection of fairy tales published by Ulrike Kindl , however, on the Armentara near Wengen ), the last battle, where the remains of the Fanes people were destroyed, at the foot of the iron fork . In the rubble on the edge of the Armentara, Dolasilla met the children, who (sent by Spina de Mul) begged her for the infallible arrows, which thus fell into the hands of the enemy.

interpretation

Wolff sees the conflict between maternal and paternal law societies as the background to many South Tyrolean legends (see also Lewis Henry Morgan ). The maternal societies were hunters and gatherers. However, hunting was an unsafe source of nutrition, so the male hunters could only teach luxury nutrition. The actual food was provided by the female foragers with their gardens. With the invention of the plow there was a revolution. Now a male plowman could produce considerably more food, but at the price that it required considerably more soil than in previous horticulture. The various peoples were dependent on territorial expansion. The peaceful time of horticulture with the mother right came to an end, followed by the warlike father right age. Hence the numerous legends of an earlier peaceful time.

literature

  • 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 [1913]. ISBN 88-8266-216-0
  • Ulrike Kindl: fairy tales from the Dolomites. Eugen Diederichs Verlag Munich 1992 ISBN 3-424-01094-4
  • Ulrike Kindl: Critical reading of the Dolomite sagas by Karl Felix Wolff. Volume II: Legends Cycles - The stories from the empire of the Fanes. Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü. San Martin de Tor 1997. ISBN 88-8171-003-X

  • Small Fanesalm with iron fork

  • Armentara below the rocks

  • Side view of the "false king", the Lagazuoi , taken from today's road leading south from the Falzarego Pass . The old road ran past the Andraz Castle on the western slope of the valley , so the perspective was a little different.