Case file · Fairy lore
Melusina of the Bock, Luxembourg
Luxembourg's founding legend makes Count Siegfried, who acquired the Bock rock in 963, the husband of Melusina, who vanished into the rock when he broke his promise not to watch her.
963 CE · 49.61, 6.14 · status: legend
The account
She is said to knit inside the rock, one stitch a year; if she finishes before the year's end, Luxembourg will sink. A statue of her stands on the Alzette.
The sceptical view
The date is Siegfried's documented purchase of the Bock; the Melusina story was attached to him much later, from the French romance.