Today's#MinCup23 vote has my favorite: Rhodochrosite!

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There's a legend from South Tyrol about King Laurin's Rose Garden. (That part of the Dolomites is actually called Rosengarten).
The legend tells about a Dwarf king who falls in love with a human woman and elopes with her. However, her human relatives decide she must have been kidnapped, and mount a rescue mission.

King Laurin has a famous rose garden in the mountains, planted in honor of a daughter he lost.

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 The story is quite long, and it is part of the King Dietrich legend cycle. I blogged about it extensively:
http://multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com/2016/10/epic-lovers-reunite.html

Basically it is a story of cultures clashing, prejudice, revenge, regret, and reconciliation. The human knights trample King Laurin's rose garden, and get into a battle with the king defending his honor and his property. The story unfolds from here, but the point is, I always imagined King Laurin's kingdom full of rhodochrosite roses...

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