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Gambrinus ( ), is a legendary European culture hero celebrated as an icon of beer, brewing, joviality, and ''joie de vivre''. Traditional songs, poems, and stories describe him as a king, duke, or count of Flanders and Brabant. Typical representations in the visual arts depict him as a rotund, bearded duke or king, holding a tankard or mug, and sometimes with a keg nearby. Gambrinus is sometimes erroneously called a patron saint, but he is neither a saint nor a tutelary deity. In one legendary tradition, he is beer's inventor or envoy. Although legend attributes to him no special powers to bless brews or to make crops grow, tellers of old tall tales are happy to adapt them to fit Gambrinus. Gambrinus stories use folklore motifs common to European folktales, such as the trial by ordeal. Some, of course, imagine Gambrinus as a man who has an enormous capacity for drinking beer.〔 The prevailing theory for the origin of Gambrinus is that he is patterned after John the Fearless (1371–1419) and/or John I, Duke of Brabant (c. 1252–1294). By this reckoning, the name ''Gambrinus'' is a corruption of ''Jan Primus'' ("John the First").〔 ==Origin of Gambrinus== The source of the legend of Gambrinus is uncertain. The character appears to have originated in the Low Countries of Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Two men purported to have inspired the creation of Gambrinus are John I, Duke of Brabant, and John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. Alternatively, German historian Johannes Aventinus (1477–1534) identified Gambrinus with Gambrivius, a mythical Germanic king about whom little is known. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gambrinus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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