The United Fanes 
Fanes The Kingdom "is certainly one of the legends of the rich and complex tradition Dolomitic Ladin. It is the saga was born on Italian soil that is loosely comparable to the great legendary European cycles, such as the Arthurian legend or the Nibelungen. Was collected and transcribed in the late 800 by Karl Felix Wolff.
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Up the high Conturines , where now there are only bushes and rocks, in an arena that still bears the name of Parliament Marmotte, long time ago there was a magical kingdom with towns and villages and cultivated fields. This country was called Fanis and its inhabitants were Fanes . Fanis had mountains and valleys, streams and lakes and forests and it was very large.
Fanes The people had a queen who lived in the castle in the mountains, protected by three surrounding walls. Fanes The people were peaceful and wise were the marmots and their allies . The people were telling neighbors that the Fanes had become large because of this alliance which had become a secret that the caretakers revealed only to the new queen as a gift on the day of his wedding.
Fanes The last princess married a foreign prince, and came to know how humble the origins were based on which the great kingdom, had not the courage to reveal to her husband. The princess refused to rule and so the foreign prince was elected king of Fanes. One day the king went hunting on Nuvolau, managed to take an eagle, but the sky fell on him with the eagle beak of fire and golden claws. After a hard fight and alternates the eagle said, "Give me back my son, and make you the most powerful king of the mountain land. "The king agreed, and the eagle proposed an alliance that would be consolidated with the exchange of twins. The eagle was truly the king of a remote island those of people from one arm. After some time the twins were born in the castle, and Dolasila Luianta .
the morning instead of Luianta was in a white crib marmot. The queen forbade the nurses to make the word with the king. A few days later the king said to Queen of wanting to take the twins on a high mountain to submit to the Sun, Lord of all life. He made a call squire and ordered him to bring the twins at the foot of Nuvolau , where the eagle would come to choose one of the twins. Women have reported that one of the girls was kidnapped on the way back.
dawn the squire rode well with the twins wrapped in blankets, so that no one could see, towards the borders of the land of Caiütes arriving in the evening to Nuvolau. All of a sudden came the eagle with the golden claws, took the basket and the strangest of the twins got up in the air. Arriving near the top rested on a rock opening wings and beak. At that moment the marmot escaped by hiding in a crevice of the rock. The squire was returning to the castle, when he heard the scream of Spina de Mul, a master magician with the appearance of a mule, half rotten. The wild scream was crazy about his listeners. The squire spent the night together with the Fanes warriors who controlled the border. Suddenly they heard footsteps. He approached a young man who came from the land of Durannes to earn with his adventures as a warrior. The young Duranno was curious to know who had Spina de Mul, who had stolen the Fanes Raieta the stone that was their greatest treasure.
E Spina was de Mul. The courageous Duranno struck him in the head with a stone and the wizard fell to the ground screaming. Spina de Mul tried to escape, but the warrior Duranno continued to hit him and for his heroic act was called Edl de Net ( eye of the night), that can strike at night. In the fight Spina de Mul had also lost Raieta. One of the warriors turned to Fanes Edl de Net, saying: " are now truly a great warrior. You've earned your name fighting superhuman strength and are in possession of the stone, which is the greatest treasure of Fanes. Anything you ask you will be in the realm of Fanes date. "
While everyone watched the mysterious stone, Dolasila began to cry and scream. Edl de Net showed her the Raieta and as if by magic, the girl calmed down by holding tight the precious stone." If this is your princess , "Edl said de Net, the stone is his, and I give it back .
The squire returned to the castle and told the queen that the second mate had been stolen, but the Queen did not reply. The king, however, told how they had happened. One evening, as the king of Fanes rode down to the pastures of Senes, the eagle came down from heaven with golden claws and keeping the deal left the ground a young eagle. The king took it and rode towards the castle, but he fell into a ravine and saw that he had not the eagle. Desolate went to the palace. Here the expected good news: the queen had given birth to a prince. The baby was beautiful and strong, but had only one arm. The king arranged a great feast and the tower did Fanes haul down the flag of the marmots and raise a red flag with an eagle in honor of his close ally.
One day the king heard talk of an old storyteller beautiful underground realm of Auron and was very impressed. The story of the storyteller had so inflamed that immediately began to search the Aurona. He learned of a lake above Canazei, was the Silver Lake, where people thought it was an immense hidden treasure. The king went with Dolasila and his entourage. We dug and dug for a long time and one day a soldier of the king found himself in a cave of precious jewels and a silver box containing a white fur like the moon and a little 'gray powder. From the cave came three dwarfs who begged the king that they were not taken away the treasure. The king did not give their hearing, but took pity Dolasila, turned back and returned to the dwarf box. They smiled and asked him to follow them to the lake and throw the gray powder because they could not do it.
So the treasure would blossom from the bottom of the lake and the dwarfs would have been free. This gift to the fur Dolasila saying: "From the makers that you make it a shell. So it becomes an invincible warrior. But when the armor will change color becoming as red as the sunset in the Dolomites, then do not go into battle."
Back at the castle, one of the older masters pulled the skin so thin that it becomes a marmot lightweight armor, but very strong. With the silver that never ended the authors made a bow to the warrior and twelve trumpets sounded wonderful. After some time the king returned the lake to see if it had flourished as they had promised the dwarfs. The whole lake was covered with silver rods. One of the squires chopped twelve barrels for it for the period of thirteen arrows Dolasila.
The arrows were so powerful and precise that the king had cut all the canes to get arrows for all the wars. The king had forgotten Aurona, but was seized by the fever of battle. Dolasila rode beside him, proud of his white armor, his bow and his arrows. His first victory was celebrated in Plan de Corones, because they Dolasila was crowned the princess warrior. One day, after a bloody battle, the princess was sad and thought of his strange fate which led her to give the death, against his fate as a woman. Although he had dreamed that the thirteen arrows would bring bad luck, Dolasila continued to fight and win.
firms Dolasila and anger at having lost the turbo spin Raieta de Mul. Lastoieres that I had instigated against Fanes had been defeated and humiliated by Dolasila. Spina de Mul sought allies against the kingdom of Fanes, but the shining star of Fanes high: both Landrins Caiütes both were defeated. Then plug de Mul went looking for the prince of Durannes, quell'Edl de Net who had defeated him in one night managed to inflame the Nuvolau with tales of the king of the pride and beauty of Fanes Dolasila. Edl de Net participated in the war against Fanes putting, however, a clause: Dolasila had to be saved. The allies gathered at the Boite. Even Fanes they prepared for battle. For the first time the prince went down in the field by one arm.
From the sky fell a great eagle with its beak and claws aflame with gold. Fanes recognized now their totem animal. Was chosen for the battle of the plain Fiames. Net appeared alongside Edl de Spina de Mul disguised as a warrior. Suddenly they heard the ringing of silver trumpets Fanes. At the head of his warriors appeared Dolasila. After beating the Peleghetes first and then the Princess Lastoieres bright as the sun was heading toward Durannes Net fixed while Edl de Dolasila dazzled. The two men faced each property, with weapons drawn, lost in a gaze. In this moment de Mul Spina gave one of his arrows and shot fairy Dolasila Aquila which was supported by the Prince and carried away from the battle. The valiant Durannes were defeated. From a Aguana on the shores of Lake Antermoia Edl de Net Dolasila learned that she had to make a warrior and they often rode to the lakes to speak with Aguan to tell them the pain of his love for a warrior who had seen once. I also told him that the fate was sealed and that Fanes Dolasila was in danger. Edl de Net decided to save her, but did not know how.
The Aguana advised him to seek a prince who had become a beggar and they sent him to Zicuta's sister Spina de Mul, who hated the king of Fanes, because he had not wanted to marry him. Had to wait seven days, finally the sky darkened and the rock was covered with poppies dark as blood. Edl de Net you went and found the witch Zicuta. Zicuta told the noble Duranno Fanes that the kingdom was doomed. In truth to Edl de Net is not interested in the realm of Fanes nor its history and its destiny. He was only interested Dolasila. "Climb the mountain Latemar," he said Zicuta, "and ask the dwarf to manufacture a shield so heavy that no one else can take it. With this Dolasila shield will defend. "A moment later she was gone and the poppies became blacks and turned into a pile of ashes.
Dolasila lying wounded in the castle of Fanes. To protect it would have to build a shield and only dwarves Latemar I knew the formula. Latemar The king went on and was very surprised to find his shield ready. The king had to bring the shield to the castle, but he knew immediately that no one was able to wear it. One day he appeared at a royal palace young foreigner who lifted the shield with one hand. The king hired him as the bearer of a shield to protect Dolasila in battle. Fanes I went back to fight and win. Dolasila rode in the front row, protected by Net shield carried by Edl de Great was the astonishment of the king, when he asked the young man's hand Dolasila. King proud, strongly wounded in his pride, he agreed only when the young Duranno told him to be a prince. Dolasila wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, but the king, the war is never enough. To be the greatest king of his time was still the underground kingdom of Auron and began to weave to get secret plots with his neighbors. So expelled from his kingdom Edl de Net.
Dolasila promised to her husband not to go more into battle without him. In the palace of Fanes there was confusion and despair. The enemy had declared war and had camped near the Col di Lana. Queen Dolasila called and begged her to save the kingdom. The princess could not decide: was the sacred promise made to her husband, her mother's sacred words, sacred to his people, the people of Fanes. Dolasila had made his decision, but his heart was heavy as a stone. He wandered on the lawns of 'Armentarola hoping to meet Edl de Net Returning to the castle came the bad boys thirteen and matted. A Dolasila they fear, and so gave the thirteen arrows and thirteen small fairy demons sent by Spina de Mul.
The white shell of the princess became dark as blood, and Dolasila remembered the prophecy of the seven dwarfs, and now he knew that his fate was dreamed of. So the princess Fanes led his people to death. Pralongià gathered on the Caiütes, the Cadubrenes, the Lastoieres, the Peleghetes, and the Latrones Ampezzo. Many were the people that the false king was able to gather by deception. It was nearing noon, without the battle is resolved to Fanes or allies. Dolasila armor had hidden from the mantle, but gleamed on his forehead the Raieta. So thirteen archers Caiütes recognized her in the fray and thirteen warriors struck Dolasila with thirteen cursed arrows. The princess fell transfixed by his own arrows and invoking Edl de Net mori. The hope of the kingdom of Fanes had waned.
The King of Fanes he was hidden on Lagazuoi waiting for the return of the Allies. Suddenly the king was seized by nostalgia for his people. He wanted to return to the castle but the allies were holding him prisoner, and everyone laughed at. It was a false king who had betrayed his people and as such became stone. step at the foot of Lagezuoi is still called Falzarego . Latest Fanes warriors had managed to escape the castle on Conturines. There, the queen had heard of the death of Dolasila.
suddenly appeared beside her a young girl dressed in white. Luianta was that the queen had given him to deal with the marmots, his secret allies.
The Queen Mother followed Luianta to a cave and asked forgiveness for having abandoned the deal. He told the alliance with the eagles and the exchange of sister marmot. Marmots understood, forgiven and accepted to renew the ancient pact. And Luianta led by the Queen in Morin Salvans, where the few survivors fled Fanes waiting for better times. This was a place underground, where the dwarves were working the gold and marmots spent their winter sleep. The enemy had destroyed everything that had built Fanes and the kingdom, once so flourishing, looked like a desert.
The thirteen arrows kept Spina and de Mul Raieta was hidden in a cave guarded by bears. Once a year, on a moonlit night, a black boat goes around the Lake Braies. Exits from a rock door and goes on still waters of the lake. On the boat sit the old queen and Luianta. They await the sound of silver trumpets, waiting for the big time, when the long-promised return, the time when the kingdom will rise again Fanes.
