The pious knight
The pious knight is a fairy tale . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's New German Fairy Tale Book at position 31 and first appeared in his paperback dedicated to love and friendship (1833) and in poems (1836).
content
Whenever the knight comes across the cemetery near his castle, he prays for the dead. When enemies pursue him once, he only brings out the beginning of Psalm 130: "From the deep - from the deep -". Dead warriors rise up and protect him.
style
The narrator emphasizes the hero's chivalry in a sophisticated manner, “he was honorable and pious, manly in quarrels, godly at home.” Following a clichéd view of history, “in ancient pagan times” dead ashes “in high hills” were buried on the “corpse field” later a battle was fought, and finally the church was built. Bechstein mentions the common use of Psalm 130 for praying for the dead and at penance. See Marien-Ritter . There are no borrowings from Grimm's fairy tales, the arc of tension is similar to Die Sterntaler .
origin
Bechstein states that the subject also comes across as a local legend and that he had worked on it earlier as a romance. According to Hans-Jörg Uther , it appeared as a legendary poem with 12 × 2 lines in Bechstein's paperback dedicated to love and friendship (1833), three years later in poems and found in a medieval manuscript by Exempla that was wrongly attributed to Caesarius von Heisterbach .
literature
- Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 184-186, 293.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. New German fairy tale book. After the edition of 1856, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 293.