Kingdom of Fanes

View of Lake Braies and the Seekofel (Ladin Sass dla porta) behind. According to the legend, the Fanes, survivors of the battle against the southern people[1] would live inside the mountain, waiting for the rebirth of their kingdom. It is an example of the King asleep in mountain folklore motif

The Kingdom of Fanes (Ladin: Rëgn de Fanes) is the national epic of the Ladin people in the Dolomites and the most important part of the Ladin literature. Originally an epic cycle, today it is known through the work of Karl Felix Wolff in 1932, gathered in his book Dolomitensagen. Until that time, this material was transmitted orally among the Ladin people. This legend is part of the larger corpus of the South Tyrolean sagas, whose protagonists are the Fanes themselves.[2]

  1. ^ Likely Palaeo-venetics.
  2. ^ (in Italian) Giuliano e Marco Palmieri, I regni perduti dei monti pallidi, Cierre Edizioni, 1996, Verona.