{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml44_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml44_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_tml_tml44_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/tml/tml44.htm","summary":"This is a chapter from *Teutonic Myth and Legend* (1912), a scholarly retelling by Donald A. Mackenzie of medieval Germanic heroic legend \u2014 specifically the \"Laurin\" story from the broader Dietrich von Bern cycle. The narrative follows Dietrich of Bern and his knights \u2014 including the Danish warrior Dietleib \u2014 as they pursue the dwarf king Laurin into the Tyrolean mountains after he abducts Dietleib's sister Kunhild and makes her his queen. The story turns on a sequence of magical contests: Laurin's enchanted rose garden, his diamond-proof armor, a cloak of invisibility, a strength-giving girdle, and spells that blind and imprison the heroes in his underground hall. What makes the account distinctive is its mix of courtly-heroic conventions with fairy-tale dwarf lore \u2014 Laurin is simultaneously a chivalric antagonist who demands legal satisfaction for his trampled roses and a trickster figure who uses enchantment rather than brute force. Mackenzie presents the material in a prose retelling that preserves the episodic, formulaic character of the original Germanic sources while making them accessible to a general Edwardian readership. The text is primarily narrative rather than analytical, functioning as popular mythology rather than academic commentary.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Teutonic Myth and Legend: Chapter XXXIX. The Wonderful Ro...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":2629}