Dietrich im kampf mit dem Wilden Mann. Stutgart. 1470
Germany and Austria is filled with folktales of Wild Men, 'Wilder Mann' hotels and statues are everywhere, particularly in the Tyrol. In fact, growing up in Bavaria, I was convinced they still lived in the mountains there.
Grover Krantz suggested that the surviving hunter-gatherer groups in Europe didn’t finally die out / get assimilated until the Middle Ages, and to them attributes those wild man accounts. The Almasty is altogether different, sez Krantz (said, actually, cuz he’s now deceased) and was reported as recently as the 1940s.