Thyrsus (legendary figure)
The giant Thyrsus is a legendary figure from Tyrol who is said to have lived in Leithen near Reith .
Thyrsus is mentioned in the legend of the giant Haymon . According to tradition, he was stronger, more agile, and half a head taller than Haymon.
At the time of the plague, Thyrsus is said to be seriously ill. In order not to infect the other villagers, he is said to have withdrawn into the vaulted cellar of his house, which meant that Leithen was spared the plague.
General
Thürse, Thürsus or Thurse are names for primeval giants in Germanic mythology . The Hrimthursen are therefore frost and frost giants that descend from the world giant Ymir .
In the legend of the giant Haymon, however, Thyrsus is a proper name.
Lore
The cause of the dispute between the two giants Haymon and Thyrsus is portrayed differently:
Tradition tells that Thyrsus felt provoked by the newly arrived Haymon ("Rhinelander"), as he had lived in the Upper Inn Valley for ages.
Another tradition speaks of the sudden destruction of Haymon's castle. A variant of this tradition reports that Thyrsus destroyed the castle while Haymon was sleeping. Another form of tradition says that Haymon's human neighbors committed the act, and that Haymon was brought up against Thyrsus by accusing a farmer because the farmer knowingly named the innocent Thyrsus as the perpetrator.
According to tradition, the fight between the two giants took place near the hamlet of Thyrschenbach - today: Dirschenbach .
In the course of the fight Haymon stabbed the Thyrsus with his sword a deep wound in the heel, so that a stream of bright blood sprang out. Thyrsus took a Wasen , used it to close his wound and fled to the Karwendel . The much blood he had lost seeped into the rock. But Haymon caught up with him near the Leitnerkogel and killed him. The last words of the giant Thyrsus are said to have been: “Spritz Bluet! Be good for animals and people! "
It was not until a long time later, when history was long forgotten, that farmers found the healing Thyrsus blood - called "Dirschen blood" by them - in the stones of the Karwendel Mountains. The medicinal Tyrolean stone oil is extracted from the thyrsenic blood .
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- Opposite the chapel of St. Magnus in Reith (already in Leithen ) is the giant house where Thyrsus is said to have lived.
- Thyrsus is represented together with a fish (as a symbol for the stone oil) in the municipal coat of arms of Reith bei Seefeld.
literature
- Michael Unterwurzacher (Ed.): In the realm of Patscherkofel. Legends and facts about Innsbruck's local mountain and the south-eastern low mountain range . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-8482-4026-5 .
- Michael Forcher : The giant Haymon or the true story of how a pious nobleman becomes a dragon slayer and monastery founder and, after centuries, the namesake for a literary publisher . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2007, ISBN 978-3-85218-529-3 .
- Wolfgang Morscher, Berit Mrugalska-Morscher: The most beautiful sagas from Tyrol . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-85218-833-1 .
