Goldemar

Goldemar is the title of a heroic poem from the 13th century by Albrecht von Kemenaten belonging to the group of aventiuric Dietrichepik , only preserved as a fragment .

It is told how Dietrich von Bern set out to see the gigantic giants in a forest called Trutmunt that he was told about. There he sees a girl in the midst of dwarfs who arouses his desire ( 'send muot' ). He asks the dwarfs about the girl, and their king Goldemar answers him. Then the text breaks off after 9 stanzas and just under 3 verses.

But the summary from the 'Heldenbuch-Prose' is still preserved: Dietrich can only with great effort free the girl named Hertlin from the violence of the dwarf king Goldemar. As the prose version expressly mentions, she had preserved her virginity and thus became Dietrich's first wife. When she died, Dietrich took Herrat , the daughter of King Etzel's sister, as his wife. What is meant by the great effort (heroic prose text: 'with great work') can be deduced from a stanza in the adventure novel Reinfried von Braunschweig from the end of the 13th century: Goldemar calls the legendary giants of the Trutmunt forest to help. Forest and mountain are destroyed in the process.

Although this legend has only survived in fragments or as a prose summary, it is interesting because, unlike other lockpicks, Dietrich does not simply fight here to maintain and increase his reputation as the best fighter, but instead, after seeing Hertlin, becomes a servant who fights for love's sake. As a result, the character of the poem differs mainly from the Laurin epic, which is similar in its course , in which Dietrich has to be prevented from killing Laurin and does not want to admit that Laurin has to be spared in order to save Dietleib's sister Künhild. Albrecht von Kemenaten would like to turn the Bernese, who is known as a fighter, into a mini-knight and thus transfer it to the courtly form of the knight novel . The fact that the author understands his work as courtly poetry is supported by the fact that he mentions himself in the second stanza - the rule in courtly poetry, whereas anonymity was common in heroic poetry .

literature

• Joachim Heinzle: Introduction to Middle High German Dietrichepik . Berlin: de Gruyter 1999. ISBN 3-11-015094-8 . (In particular p. 104 ff.)
• Joachim Heinzle (Hrsg.): Heldenbuch, after the oldest print in illustration. I: Figure volume, II: Commentary volume, Göppingen 1981.