Edolanz

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Edolanz , a German-language manuscript from the 13th and 14th centuries, is a post-classical Aventiure novel, handed down in the two fragments A and B. A was discovered by Hoffmann von Fallersleben in the Benedictine Abbey Stift Seitenstetten and in 1840 in the Altdeutsche Blätter 2 on the Published pages 148-152. Fragment B, on the other hand, was published 41 years later by Anton Emanuel Schönbach . This fragment, from Strasbourg in Carinthia , was published in 1881 in the Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum (ZfdA) 25 on pages 271–287.

Fragment A.

Dating and origin

Fragment A is kept in the archive of the Benedictine monastery Seitenstetten and consists of a sheet of parchment with the external dimensions of 213 × 150 mm and a font size of 165 × 130 mm. The fragment, written in Bavarian dialect , is estimated to have originated at the end of the 13th century.

It is a sheet of parchment consisting of two columns with 32 separate verses each. For a short time this fragment was mistakenly thought to be lost. So it is with Christoph Corneau : "2 Frgm.e: (A) earlier Stiftsbibl. Seitenstetten, now lost. 13th century ". The fine parchment shows several different types of damage, so that one can assume that the paper will be reused. At first it was probably used as waste for lining a book cover. Wernfried Hofmeister has dealt intensively with the damage to the pages. He speaks of visible punctures that indicate stapling, worm damage and the destruction of the text by the glue. The glue has softened the parchment and thus smudged parts of the text. Using it as waste resulted in further damage. There are also notches in the stitching area, both above and below, that are partially trimmed or torn. In his opinion, this binding margin should not have been the original one. On page 2a there are two special features: a foiling number and a word. Hofmeister brought these features to light with the help of the virtual reconstructive editing technique. The foiling number is 76. It is on the back of the parchment 2a and is not part of the Edolanz design principle. According to Hofmeister, the shape of the number 76 only became common in the 14th or 15th century and thus falls out of the time when Edolanz was created. With the help of the editing technique, Hofmeister could still recognize the letter s (or k) 4. This is a long letter followed by the graph sequence “evit” 5. At the end he also guesses the remains of an ending e (or o). But even this does not match the appearance of the original text. The usual deletions of the initial letter in the Edolanz text and the decoration with a red line are missing. Due to this fact, Hofmeister does not assume that this could be a handwriting sample or something similar. Rather, he suspects that it is a palimpsest , a cleaned and rewritten medieval page of a manuscript, and considers this remainder to be badly scraped and therefore not relevant to the text.

Anton Schönbach was still busy with the orthography of the two texts. Here he made a few deviations from the court for the fragment A Middle High German fixed. There are no particularities to be found with regard to the metric either. Since fragment B, in contrast to A, is written in a Bavarian-Austrian dialect, Schönbach assumes that there are several decades between the production of the fragments. Verses 29-32 on page 1a7 also testify to this. They are written in red and describe an aventiure title: "How Gawan and Edolanz parted and Edolanz got into a castle where he slew two dragons and four lions". According to Schönbach, fragment A cannot have been a model for fragment B, since such a title in B is completely absent. He also assumes that there was at least one other Edolanz manuscript.

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Edolanz frees the knight Gawan from the clutches of a giant through a fight. Gawan had tried to help the Lord Leturs lady whom the giant had kidnapped. Because his horse is killed in battle, the Liberated Edolanz gives a castelan. Edolanz and Gawan ride on in search of new adventures. However, since they cannot prove their courage even after several days, the two decide to separate. Gawan decides to take the path across the plain and warns Edolanz beforehand about the enchanted forest of Mr. Lurteun. Edolanz is not intimidated by this and rides into the forest. There he meets a dwarf who also tells him about Lurteun. Although this gentleman has a huge treasure, greater than that of all the knights and King Arthur , no one has yet returned from this adventure. The use of the game, which Mr. Lurteun demands, is namely the head of his opponent. This is where the fragment ends.

Fragment B

Dating and origin

Fragment B comes from Strasbourg in Carinthia and used to belong to the private property of Julius Bogensberger from Graz. Today the double sheet of parchment can be found in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. The fragment ( Cod. Ser. Nova 4001 ) with the outer dimensions of 234 × 160 mm and a writing space of 175 × 135 mm consists of two columns on both sides with 32 separate verses each. Hermann Menhardt estimates the date of origin of the parchment to be in the middle of the 14th century and Anton Emanuel Schönbach at the beginning of the 14th century at the latest. This fragment also served as the cover of a book. The fragment is written in Bavarian-Austrian and hardly shows any features of courtly Middle High German. The dialect is perfectly pronounced. At the beginning of the verse, capital letters are capitalized and the individual sections begin with large red initials. According to Anton Schönbach, these were drawn in small and black. In his copy of the fragment, Schönbach numbered the pages (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b) and left out rhyming points, which in his opinion were set without any rule. Before the fragment was used as a book cover, it was used as an envelope for a foil booklet. In one of the two uses, the parchment then appears to have been broken or torn in the middle. This is how Schönbach explains at least the large number of stunted lines in 1ab. Especially on page 4ab some lines are completely rubbed off. According to Schönbach, he used some reagents to determine the text on pages 1ab and 4ab. But he succeeded in doing this almost perfectly. Only on page 4ab has one line completely disappeared, the rest could almost certainly be reconstructed by Schönbach.

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Fragment B consists of two parts: Pages 1a -2b deal with a city siege by Pontschûr. Edolanz helps the city and also takes some prisoners - including two relatives of the Pontschûr. Since prisoners are being taken on both sides, an agreement is reached and an atonement (a peace agreement) is initiated. Pontschûr has to leave the field and Edolanz is celebrated. Despite all requests to stay in town, Edolanz rides off and arrives in a forest. There he finds an orphaned horse and a knitted net. Pages 3a-4b again deal with a fight between Edolanz and Pontschûr, in which King Arthur is also watching. The fight is for a maiden's sparrowhawk. Edolanz defeats Pontschûr and is about to kill him when King Arthur intervenes and Edolanz seeks mercy for Pontschûr. Edolanz grants Arthur his wish and the sparrowhawk is returned to the lady who then offers her house to Arthur.

literature

  • Horst Brunner: An overview of the history of German literature in the Middle Ages. Reclam. Stuttgart: 1997
  • Christoph Cormeau: Edolanz . In: The German literature of the Middle Ages. Berlin / New York 1980.
  • Wernfried Hofmeister: New edition of the Seitenstettner Edolanz fragment A: a philological adventure , In: Festschrift for Anton Schwob for his 60th birthday. Innsbruck: 1997.
  • Wolfram von Eschenbach, edited by Karl Lachmann. Berlin: G. Reimer 1833.
  • Hermann Menhardt: Directory of the old German literary manuscripts of the Austrian National Library, 3 volumes. Publications of the Institute for German Language and Literature 13. Berlin 1960/61.
  • Anton Schönbach: New Fragments of Edolanz. In: Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum 25 (1881), pp. 271–287.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Edolanz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.digizeitschriften.de/index.php?id=ssearch&tx_jkDigiTools_pi1%5Bsquery%5D=edolanz&x=15&y=15