How many times has the emperor’s beard grown around the table, somewhere in there and down there deep in the caves of the mountain? Most of the time the beard twists around twice and then it’s not that far away from the end of the world. If you only do it once, the end would be hard to predict, as a beard like this grows slowly. And if he had already been around three times and the world still hadn’t ended, then somehow the air would be taken out of the story. They are told about several emperors and several mountains. But the Untersberg between Berchtesgaden, Bad Reichenhall and Salzburg almost seems to consist of such stories itself – a huge, 70 square kilometer and almost 2000 meter high triangle made of Dachstein limestone, Ramsaudolomite and stories. It doesn’t get any more legendary.
Fabulous Bavaria: The Untersberg and its myths – Bavaria
