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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal, Vol. 6 2020, 215–218 Extended Abstract Open Access: content is licensed under CC BY 3.0 Mapped Legends Visualised travel movements by literary mapping in Karl F. Wolff’s “Erzählungen vom Reich der Fanes” Extended Abstract Erika Unterpertinger Ever since Karl Felix Wolff’s “Erzählungen vom Reich der Fanes” (1957) (Tales of the Fanes) were first published as part of his Dolomitensagen in 1913, they became very popular in the Alpine region. The “Tales of the Fanes” derive from a much older, oral Ladin minority tradition, which Wolff heavily modified to unite into a coherent story. The collection of thirty-two tales relates the story of how the Fanes people, led by the warrior princess Dolasilla and her squire, Ey-de-Net (Night Eye), established their reign within the area of the Val di Fassa, Val Badia and the Valle d’Ampezzo, located in the Dolomite mountains in Northern Italy. In the stories, their oppo- nents forge an alliance against the Fanes. With the help of the sorcerer Spina-de- Mul (Donkey Carcass), Dolasilla is tricked and defeated, and the Fanes must flee into the heart of the mountains. The tale ends with the last of the Fanes, Lidsanel, failing to accomplish a quest that would cause them to re-emerge from where they have hidden. While Wolff was strongly criticized, even by contemporary folklorists, for merg- ing different narratives that were not originally connected (Kindl 1997), researchers on Ladin literature to this day credit Wolff’s work as a contribution to the preserva- tion of Ladin oral traditions (Bernardi/Videsott 2014: 45). Places within the “Tales of the Fanes” can be localized clearly but have yet to be explored in studies due to Kindl’s scepticism regarding the reliability of the source material (1997: 144). With rising interest in literary cartography since the later 2000s (Moretti 1998; 2007; Jockers 2013; Gregory et al. 2015), focusing on places and the travel that connects them may give new insights into the “Tales of the Fanes”. In response, this paper presents a study in which the geographical infor- mation in Wolff’s collection is used to create literary maps with QGIS that, in a second step, are combined with a close reading of the Ladin tales. While folktales and fairy tales are generally not considered travel literature,