Ainune

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Ainune is a fragment of a medieval parchment - manuscript from the early 13th century. It was found around 1835 by Franz Josef Mone in an incunabulum from the library of the Reichsabtei Salem (also: Salmannsweiler).

Format and delivery

The fragment was found glued to an incunabula. The original manuscript was written on parchment in quart format ; 2 sheets of 39 lines each were found, which were cut in the middle and cut off at the top. The two sheets contained a total of 314 lines in Middle High German, more precisely Alemannic . However, since 1855 both sheets have been considered lost and have not yet been found. Further traditions or other passages of the Ainune text have not yet been found.

Dating and author assignment

Mone dated the fragment to the beginning of the 13th century, later it was dated to the 2nd quarter of the 13th century, probably after 1230, due to the demanding courtly tone and the Minne theme . No author is known. Attempts have already been made several times to assign the fragment Bligger von Steinach , but no clear evidence of this has yet been found.

content

The Ainune fragment is part of a probably larger courtly verse epic. The surviving parts of the text deal almost exclusively with the recruitment of an unnamed king for Queen Ainune, with the help of the advisor Willehalm de Punt. At the end of the text, this project seems to be successful. The main topics are love , loyalty, truthfulness and virtue as well as the warning against false love.

output

  • Franz Joseph Mone: Fragments of old knight poems. In: Anzeiger für customer of the German prehistory. Organ of the Germanisches Museum. 1835. pp. 314-321 ( online ).

literature

  • Heinrich Meyer-Benfey (ed.): Middle High German exercise pieces , 2nd edition, Halle / S. 1920, pages 132-139
  • Franz Pfeiffer: On the history of German literature. 3 investigations , Stuttgart 1855
  • Helmut de Boor : Court literature. Preparation, flowering, ending 1170 - 1250 , 11th edition, edited by Ursula Hennig, Munich 1991
  • Edward Schröder: Bunte Read I , in: Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Literatur 61/1924, page 40
  • Richard M. Meyer: Bligger von Steinach , in: Zeitschrift für Deutsches Altertum und Literatur 39/1895, pages 305–326