The thirteenth-century poem "The Monster" places its title character as the leader of this non-Christian event, with Dietrich von Bern defending a maiden during it.
This event supposedly only will effect those taller than an ox's yoke, so others may duck to the ground to avoid being harmed. According to Walter Map, the instigator of this event was a king who had traveled to the Netherworld and returned three hundred years later to find his land settled by foreigners. The character Harlequin may have been re-interpreted as a comic after originally being based on a participant in this event named Herla. Legendarily, both Saint Guthlac and (*) Hereward the Wake were thought to have taken part in this event. The thirteenth-century poem "The Monster" places its title character as the leader of this non-Christian event, with Dietrich von Bern defending a maiden during it. Its leader is Dietrich in some accounts, and is depicted as Samiel [zah-MEEL] in the opera Der Freischutz. For 10 points, Wodan was commonly identified at the head of what common Germanic motif, an event in which a horde of marauders pursues animals at night?
This event supposedly only will effect those taller than an ox's yoke, so others may duck to the ground to avoid being harmed.
The Wild Hunt [or Die Wilde Jagd]