Eidelweiss... if your german you will know?? for sure?

Question

i keep forgetting the story about the eidelweiss and the soldier... its a german legend and i keep forgetting how it goes..

Answer 1

I love the song from the sound of Music that is for sure. Love the Sound of Music.

I am part German...well a lot German. I will have to look up that legend since I have never heard of it before.

Seems there is more than one legend...

LEGEND OF EDELWEISS

Several time ago mountains watched the shooting stars that went to get lost in the sea.

In the sea the stars add themselves to the stars marine into the .

Le mountains was envious of the sea, so populated of fishes, corals and over all stars!

After several years of pain the mountains ask to God:

"Why don’t give to us the falling stars? The sea is already so populated!

Gad said:

"Even you have many treasures: woods, animals, fields, rivers…"

And the mountains replied:

"But we have nude rocks, silent and solitary places, without life. We don’t ask so much, just to fall some stars on the top where there is nothing only the white snow"

So God agreed

The Night of Saint Lawrence of the next year the mountains shone of the stars that was fallen on their top...

The Edelweiss was in flower.

http://www.dailygrail.com/node/3456

Here is another from Wikipedia

The story goes that once, long, long ago, the Alps were far taller than they are these days. In those days, atop one of the snowcapped, precipice filled mountains lived an Ice Queen. She was said to be fair as snow and hauntingly beautiful. She was served by faithful gnomes, who lived with her on those slopes.

The Queen would sing melodiously and her sound would lure many a shepherd to lose his way in the mountains and come upon her abode. However beautiful she was, she had a flaw; her heart was frozen cold as if it were made of pure ice.

She would play with these hapless shepherds who sought her voice for a while. When she got tired of this play, the gnomes would toss the men off the cliffs to their death.

So she lived, through long ages alone except for poor companionship of her slaves.

It so happened that one of these shepherds, following her voice, entered into her abode. There was nothing different about him, this Man, nothing special, nothing noteworthy. But the Ice Queen steadily grew to love this man.

She would sing and he would sit awed beside her throne for hours and days to end. They had their love.

But the gnomes grew jealous, fearing that one day the Ice Queen may marry this mortal. Thus they conspired and threw him headlong into the valley below, where his heart burst asunder.

Seeing this, for the first and last time, the eyes of the Ice Queen warmed. Her heart melted a little and a single teardrop fell off her eternally beautiful sad cheeks.

It is this tear that has become the edelweiss , the most beautiful flower of the Alps.

Possibly the etymology of the word too is derived from this fable.

So...I am not sure what others there are...

But they are both cool stories :)

Answer 2

I'm half germen and I never heard of it.

Answer 3

This is the only legend about eidelweiss I can find:

http://www.germansteins.com/Legend_of_th...

Answer 4

I remember something about that when I took German in high school.

The previous answerer's response was good.