Dietleib
Dietleib (also Dietleib von Steier , in Nordic sagas Thetleif the Dane or Detzlef the Dane ), the hero from the Middle High German heroic epic Biterolf and Dietleib , also plays an important role as Dietrich von Bern's comrade in the Thidrek saga and in the saga of King Laurins Rose garden .
Here he tries to free his sister Kühnhild , who is being held captive by the dwarf king, and gets into an argument about it with Dietrich, who wants to kill Laurin in anger without doing anything to free Kühnhild beforehand.
The Thidrek saga describes how Dietleib successfully competed with Walther vom Wasgenwald at the Etzels farm .
The verse epic Biterolf and Dietleib , handed down in the Ambraser Heldenbuch (between about 1254 and 1268), begins with the lines:
- Whether or not we are here
- so unverted muotes frî,
- that of the customer
- he would like to deny that
- strange maere.
Dietleib von Steier is depicted in the frescoes of Runkelstein Castle near Bozen (shortly after 1393).
literature
- Hartmut Bleumer: Scheme games . "Biterolf and Dietleib" between novel and epic. In: Jan-Dirk Müller (Ed.): Text and context. Case studies and theoretical justifications for a mediaeval studies guided by cultural studies. Colloquium, July 12-14, 2003 at the Historical College in Munich. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-58106-6 , pp. 191-219 ( writings of the Historisches Kolleg. Colloquia 64).