Case file · Folklore / legend

Barbarossa asleep in the Kyffhäuser

From around 1519, a German folk book placed the sleeping emperor Frederick Barbarossa inside the Kyffhäuser hills, waiting to return when ravens stop circling.

1519 CE · 51.41, 11.11 · status: legend

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  1. Wikipedia: Kyffhäuser
  2. Wikipedia: King asleep in mountain
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