Alexander song
The Alexanderlied by Pfaffen Lamprecht was written around 1150 and thus marks the beginning of the early court epic in the German-speaking world. It is the first written large narration in the German language about non-biblical, secular material.
Emergence
As a template ( Hypo text ) Lamprecht who wrote in dialect frankoprovenzalischem applies Roman d'Alexandre otherwise unknown detail of AK de Pisançon , is obtained from the only 105 verses scoring fragment. Lamprecht sticks closely to the Roman d'Alexandre , so the 105 verses of the original that are still preserved today correspond to 180 in Lamprecht's translation. Nothing is known about Lamprecht's presumably princely client.
Lamprecht's epic about the life of Alexander the Great is the first processing of an ancient material in a narrative text in German. Different edits are known:
- The Vorauer Alexander (version of the Vorauer collective manuscript ) was created around or shortly after 1150. In 1532 verses the song, presumably like Albéric, describes only Alexander's youth.
- The Strasbourg Alexander is the later revision by an unknown author; it was written around 1170. This version deals with the whole life of Alexander in 7302 verses. Passages taken over from the Latin text of Archipresbyter Leo can also be identified here, including the mountain episode (from verse 4963, in the Alexander novel Leos L113).
- The Basel Alexander is the third arrangement by an unknown author. The manuscript in which it is still contained was created after 1400 and before 1439, although it goes back to an older model that was created in the second half of the 1870s.
An original version by Pfaffen Lamprecht has not been preserved.
The deeds of Alexander the Great were a very popular subject at medieval royal courts in the following centuries. The reason for this was the great variety of possible interpretations. Both a salvation-historical and a rule-ideal dimension could be assigned to the material.
Text examples
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Strasbourg Alexander V. 49-52 : He was born of creeping |
Vorauer Alexander V. 47-50 : Who was born by Chrîchen |
Rudolf von Ems on the Alexanderlied
The Alexander song of Pfaffen Lamprecht is also addressed by Rudolf von Ems in his Alexander :
V. 15783-15786:
Ez also had the old sitn
stumpflîche, not besnitn
a lamp rotated,
from welsch in tiutsch based
See also
literature
- Herwig Buntz: The German Alexander poetry of the Middle Ages (Metzler / D collection; Vol. 123). JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-476-10123-1 .
- Trude Ehlert: German-language Alexander poetry of the Middle Ages. On the relationship between literature and history . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1977, ISBN 3-631-42304-7 (plus habilitation thesis, University of Bonn 1984).
- Elisabeth Lienert (ed.): Pfaffe Lambrecht : Alexander novel. Middle High German / New High German. Reclam 2007, ISBN 978-3150185087 .
- Christoph Mackert: The Alexander story in the version of the "Pfaffen" Lambrecht. The early Middle High German adaptation of the Alexander poem by Alberich von Bisinzo and the beginnings of secular written epics in German (supplements to the Poetica; vol. 23). Fink, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7705-3425-5 (plus dissertation, University of Freiburg / B. 1997).
- Irene Ruttmann (ed.): The Alexander song of Pfaffen Lamprecht (Strasbourg Alexander). Text, retelling, explanations of words. Darmstadt 1974.
Web links
Individual notes
- ^ Elisabeth Lienert (ed.): Pfaffe Lambrecht: Alexanderroman. Middle High German / New High German. Reclam 2007, ISBN 978-3150185087 .
- ↑ Friedrich Pfister (Ed.): The Alexander novel by Archipresbyter Leo . Heidelberg 1913, p. 111 f .