According to the legend, Arthur was taken away to Avalon to sleep until he was needed by the people of Britain. King Arthur ( Great Britain and Brittany).Vytautas the Great in Lithuania is believed he will rise from his grave when the worst danger threatens Lithuania in order to defend the motherland at the last battle.Years later someone finds a way into the hill and guesses the name of the castle causing it to rise again and its ruler and his people to return to the living. A motif in Latvian legends involves a castle sinking into ground leaving a hill behind it.( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Major examples are King Arthur of Britain and Holy Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Ogier the Dane and William Tell. Europe Ī number of European kings, rulers, fictional characters and religious figures have become attached to this story. The omen that presages his rising will be the extinction of the birds that trigger his awakening. The story goes on to say that the king sleeps in the mountain, awaiting a summons to arise with his knights and defend the nation in a time of deadly peril. The herdsman in this story was then supernaturally harmed by the experience: he ages rapidly, he emerges with his hair turned white, and often he dies after repeating the tale. Their conversation typically involves the hero asking, "Do the eagles (or ravens) still circle the mountaintop?" The herdsman, or a mysterious voice, replies, "Yes, they still circle the mountaintop." "Then begone! My time has not yet come." In the Brothers Grimm version, the hero speaks with the herdsman. The stories almost always mention the detail that the hero has grown a long beard, indicative of the long time he has slept beneath the mountain. The presence of the hero is unsuspected until some herdsman wanders into the cave, typically looking for a lost animal, and sees the hero. The stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm concerning Frederick Barbarossa and Charlemagne are typical of the stories told, and have been influential on many variants and subsequent adaptations. The hero is frequently a historical figure of some military consequence in the history of the nation where the mountain is located. King in the mountain stories involve legendary heroes, often accompanied by armed retainers, sleeping in remote dwellings including caves on high mountaintops, remote islands, or supernatural worlds.
Frederick sends out the boy to see whether the ravens still fly.
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