ABSTRACT
CHAPTER VII: DIETRICH VON BERN The Parentage of Dietrich DIETRICH VON BERN, whose name is spelt in eighty-five different ways in the various
ballads and 'stories written about him, has been identified with the historical Theodoric of Verona, whose " name was chosen by the poets of the early Middle Ages as the string upon which the pearls of their fantastic imagination were to be strung."
