Âventiure

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Âventiure ( Middle High German ; Old French aventure, avanture ) is a central concept of secular, novel-like poetry of the High Middle Ages .

Based on the basic meaning “ chance , fate ” (from Latin adventura “that which will / should happen”), âventiure describes the tests that the hero has to pass, especially in the Arthurian novel since Chrétien de Troyes (cf. the structural principle of the hero's journey ). In these novels, coincidence is partly reinterpreted as a context of meaning. The âventiure [...] is no longer an arbitrary skill that happens to the hero, but a dangerous test of his own accord, sought by him and determined for him alone through wonderful coincidence . The narrative episodes of the âventiure - duels with knightly peers or dishonorable criminals, dangerous encounters with mysterious mythical creatures such as giants, fairies, magicians - form the structure of the novel in sequence and motif references.

Âventiure has been part of the self-description vocabulary of storytelling ( poetology ) since the late 12th century . On the one hand, the German poets use this to describe the literary models that they usually receive from France. But the (own) narrative as a whole can also be called an âventiure . Wolfram von Eschenbach has a personified Frau Aventiure appear as the narrator's dialogue partner ( Parzival 433.1–434.10). Many poets up to Hans Sachs imitate this self-reflective trick .

Âventiure in the sense of “component of a narrative” already appears in the oldest manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied as a heading for the individual plot sections.

In the German late Middle Ages , the word takes phonetic forms such as monkeys expensive , just expensive , adventure on. The New High German term adventure finally developed from it.

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  1. ^ Ingrid Kasten: Aventure (âventiure). I. Old French . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 1289.