Dukus Horant
Dukus Horant is the name of a Yiddish - (Middle) German stanza epic written around 1300 , the material of which has close connections with the Middle High German Kudrun . Stylistically and motivlich is the epic of Spielmannsepik and the late heroic epic close.
It tells the courtship of the Greek princess Hilde , daughter of the wild Hagen . The Danish Duke Horand , famous for his art of singing , undertakes the advertising trip on behalf of King Etene. In Hagen's capital, Horand, with the help of his singing, succeeds in contacting Hilde and convincing her of Etenes' proposal. With the consent of Hilde and her kidnapping during a court festival, the text breaks off. The continuation of the story can be deduced from the Hilde part of the Kudrun : The kidnapping may have resulted in persecution by the father.
The Dukus Horant is only partly preserved (280 verses). The text is handed down in Hebrew script in the so-called Cambridge manuscript from 1382/83 , an old Yiddish composite manuscript. It comes from the Genisa of the Ben Esra Synagogue in Old Cairo and came to the Cambridge University Library in 1896 .
literature
- Manfred Caliebe: "Dukus Horant". Studies on its literary tradition (= Philological Studies and Sources; Volume 70). Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-503-00738-5 (also dissertation University of Kiel 1970).
- Manfred Caliebe: 'Dukus Horant' . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author's Lexicon , 2nd edition, Volume 2. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, Sp. 239–243.
- Graeme Dunphy: Literary Transitions: From 1300-1500 . In: Max Reinhart: Early Modern German Literature (= The Camden House History of German Literature, vol. 4). Camden, Rochester NY & Woodbridge 2007, pp. 43-87, here pp. 74-78.
- Peter F. Ganz , Frederick Norman, W. Schwarz (eds.): Dukus Horant (= ATB supplementary series; Volume 2). Tubingen 1964.
- Lajb Fuks (Ed.): The Oldest Known Literary Documents of Yiddish Literature (c. 1382) . Leiden 1957.
- Fritz Peter Knapp: "Dukus Horant" and the German subliterary epic of the 13th and 14th centuries . In: Aschkenas 14/2004, pp. 101-123.
- Walter Röll, Christoph Gerhardt: On the literary-historical classification of the so-called "Dukus Horant" . In: German quarterly journal for literary studies and intellectual history 41/1967, pp. 517–527.
- Gabriele Strauch: Dukus Horant: Wanderer between two worlds (= Amsterdam publications on language and literature; Volume 89). Amsterdam / Atlanta (Georgia) 1990, ISBN 90-5183-238-9 .