In the largest collection of poems about this character, he meets his death after he jumps out of his bathtub to pursue a golden stag.
In the largest collection of poems about this character, he meets his death after he jumps out of his bathtub to pursue a golden stag. After this character encounters a rose garden surrounded by a magical thread, he saves his vassal from losing both his right foot and left hand to the dwarf-king Laurin. This man saves a maiden claiming to be a personification of good luck in the poem ";The Monster,"; which ends with him journeying to Rumeney to fight dragons until the Day of Judgment. A thirteenth-century poem about this character ends with him hopping onto a gigantic black horse that takes him to Hell. This character is mentored by Hildebrand and holds Hagenand Gunther prisoner in The Song of the Nibelungs, where he is presented as an ally of King Atli. In most High Germanic stories about him, he is exiled from his native Verona by Ermenrich and fights with Siegfried. For 10 points, name this mythical version of Theodoric the Great. 
In the largest collection of poems about this character, he meets his death after he jumps out of his bathtub to pursue a golden stag.
Dietrich von Bern [or Dietrich of Bern; prompt on Theodoric the Great]