Robert Southey's ballad "Rudiger" is drawn from this character's legend.
Robert Southey's ballad "Rudiger" is drawn from this character's legend. In one Icelandic saga he is represented as a son of Julius Caesar and a grandfather of Godfrey de Bouillon, and in that instance his name has been changed from the earlier Helias. Later additions to his tale moved his location to Antwerp, where he defended a noblewoman of Brabant. That noblewoman, Elsa, caused his disappearance as first explained in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival. FTP, name this son of Parsifal, known as the Knight of the Swan, and subject of a famous Richard Wagner opera.
Robert Southey's ballad "Rudiger" is drawn from this character's legend.
{Lohengrin} (accept early buzz: {Helias})