Recent scholarship has suggested that Frau Saelde's three magical abilities found in the poem may derive from influence from Slavic folklore, something also often speculated upon for another text of German heroic poetry, "Ortnit". The "Wunderer" was adapted into a Nuremberg carnival play, possibly by Hans Folz (1435-1516). It follows the stanzaic version of the poem closely, yet also has correspondences to the version in rhyming couplets.