Medieval Tradition

As a myth, medieval civilization left its testament in two legends. According to the first legend, every year on the night of the anniversary of the suppression of the order of the Knights Templar, an armed shadow wearing a red cross on its white mantle allegedly appears in the crypt of the Templars to inquire who wants to free the Holy Sepulcher; "No one," is the reply, "since the Temple has been destroyed." According to the second legend, Fredrick I still lives with his knights, although asleep, on the Kifhauser heights inside a symbolic mountain. He awaits the appointed time when he will descend to the valleys below at the head of his faithful in order to fight the last battle, whose successful outcome will cause the Dry Tree to bloom again and a new age to begin.
* B. Kluger, Storia delle Crociate (1887). From the context of the various versions of the second legend what emerges is the idea that a victory is possible but not certain. In some versions of the saga-which were probably influenced by the Eddic theme of ragna rök-the last emperor cannot overcome the forces of the last age and dies after hanging his scepter, crown, and the sword in the Dry Tree.[Evola "Revolt Against the Modern World" p. 311]