ABSTRACT
Travel always opens the gates toward new worlds, hence new adventures, which, in turn, tend to transform the individual. This is powerfully illuminated in the Middle High German Herzog Ernst where the protagonist experiences the great need to move first throughout Germany to defend himself against the unjust Emperor Otto, then to the mythical East where he encounters the world of monsters. Each move forward takes him closer to his own self, so trailing here constitutes the development of the individual.
