Flordimar

The Flordimar is a late medieval novel , the only book of the adventures of Füetrer Ulrich has survived. It is there with other texts, some of which have only survived there ( Poytislier , Seifrid ) in the second part, the other púech .

content

Flordimar, son of King Theangeloys of Thalimone and his wife Weatreis, does not want to be knighted by his father until he has acquired the necessary fame. For this purpose, he travels to the Artus Court and introduces himself by defeating six Arthurian knights (including Keie , Kalogrenant and others) in a jostling . When Arthur finally wants to face him himself, Flordimar does not want to fight him and puts himself in his service. From then on he experienced various aventures , freed hostages and virgins, fought against giants and dwarves, defeated robber barons and a dragon. He gains a valuable ally in the defeated giant Parfilot, with whose help he can defeat the Mordagorat, who is responsible for the dragons and other mischiefs, and his evil witch woman, at the side of King Welot, and finally free the land terrorized by both. Then Welot offers him his land and his daughter as a wife, which Flordimar refuses. Instead, he rushes to the aid of the beautiful Wellabone, whose country is besieged by the heathen king Gerwollt, defeats this too and finally wins land and wife. All defeated opponents, including King Welot, are sent to Arthur's court to report on Flordimar's superiority; he himself travels back to Britain for the wedding with Wellabone .

Relationship to other texts

There are some elements of content that the Flordimar shares with other texts, especially the collective manuscript Book of Adventure . For example, there is a virtue stone that also appears in the Book of Adventures in Wigoleis , which is based on the Wigalois des Wirnt von Gravenberg , as well as in Poytislier and Melerans . The stone allows only the flawless, absolutely virtuous knight to touch it. A test that all protagonists who come across it insist. In particular with the wigolee ice there are other similarities, some of which are shown in an almost identical choice of words in some passages. Some examples (quoted in the early New High German original language of the text) are:

Flordimar	Wigo ice
5454, 5 ff.	3138, 1 ff.
do he curses himself with the fron krewtze	He sach des worms scheutze
before disem valannd roughly,	and his external plick.
from there ain praites her wanna nemen schewtze.	with the heyligen crewtze
	before this miracle he blesses himself thick, [...]
5459, 1 ff.	3158, 5 ff.
He has to do two things	because he left ain schray with such a gel,
with ain sollichen schray,	that di pewm even considered
Perg and Vellsen would like to	and sam wanted to tear apart perg and velsen.
having spoken of disem don entzway.

The location is to read "Verse book of adventures, verse"

literature

• Heinz Thoelen (ed.): The book of adventure / Ulrich Füetrer. After the manuscript A (Cgm. 1 of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) , Volume 1: The history of the knighthood and the Grail; Volume 2: Das annder púech, (= Göppingen work on German studies; Volume 638.1 and 638.2), Göppingen 1997, ISBN 3-87452-884-7
• Volker Mertens: The German Arthurian novel. VII The Arthurian novels sum and end: Ulrich Fuetrer. ISBN 978-3-15-017609-2