claim: Jed Whedon had no parents.
evidence: The Gothic King Theoderic the Great was remembered in Germanic legend as Dietrich von Bern -LRB- Bern is the Middle High German name for Verona , where Theoderic had one of his residences -RRB- .. Theoderic the Great. Theoderic the Great. Middle High German. Middle High German. Verona. Verona. Dietrich figures in a number of surviving works , and it must be assumed that these draw on long-standing oral tradition .. oral tradition. oral tradition. The majority of poems about Dietrich / Theoderic are composed in Middle High German , and are generally divided by modern scholars into historical -LRB- German  : historische Dietrichepik -RRB- and fantastical -LRB- German  : either marchenhafte or aventiurehafte Dietrichepik -RRB- .. Middle High German. Middle High German. The historical poems can loosely be connected with the life of the historical Theoderic and concern his expulsion from Verona by his uncle Ermenrich -LRB- Ermanaric -RRB- and his attempts to regain his kingdom with the help of Etzel -LRB- Attila -RRB- .. Verona. Verona. Ermanaric. Ermanaric. Attila. Attila. The fantastical poems concern his battles with dwarfs , dragons , giants , and other mythical beings , as well as other heroes such as Siegfried .. dwarfs. Dwarf ( mythology ). dragons. dragons. giants. Giant ( mythology ). Siegfried. Sigurd. In addition to these two categories of poems , he appears as a supporting character in some poems such as the Nibelungenlied and Biterolf und Dietleib .. Nibelungenlied. Nibelungenlied