A connection exists between this story and a Tyrolian Ladino folk-story in which the rose garden is the source of the morning-glow on the Alps, localized at the Rosengarten group. Heinzle, however, while not dismissing this theory entirely, believes that, since this story is only attested from the 17th century onward, it is more likely to have been influenced by the text than the other way around. Others have attempted to connect the rose garden to a cult of the dead, which Heinzle dismisses entirely. A rose garden also plays an important rose in another Dietrich poem, the Rosengarten zu Worms, which may have been inspired by Laurin.