Hürnen Seyfrit

Here Seyfrid and everyone will horn himself, then not between the shoulders , medieval stitch to horn Seyfrid

The Hürnen Seyfrit ("The song of Siegfried with the cornea") is a version of the Siegfried saga . The earliest known print dates from the first half of the 16th century.

Lore

Here the horny Seyfrid throws the Rysen over the Trachenstain , medieval stitch

Hie sitting Seyfrid vnd the Junckfraw auff eat wöllen the Trachenstain vnd, the Trach kumpt gefaren, vnd brings sechtzig young Trachen with him , stab

The Hürnen Seyfrit (or Hürnen Seyfrid ) shows that there were different traditions about Siegfried's youth. It reports twice about Siegfried's youth, once as a king's son, once as a servant to a blacksmith, as if contradicting parallel songs were simply strung together. As a whole, this creates an indisputably heterogeneous and contradicting work, but it is valuable for the knowledge of parallel traditions. The work has been preserved in printed versions (and in a newly discovered handwritten fragment) from the 16th century; but similar saga details in the Thidrek saga and in late medieval adaptations of the Nibelungenlied show that preliminary stages of this existed as early as the 13th century.

In an edition published in 1726, the song from the Hürnen Seyfried is retold in prose as a wonderful history of the horned Siegfried . According to the title of the book, the legend "translated from French into German, and reissued by new ones".

useful information

In Worms there were some objects that were assigned to the Hürnen Seyfrit . This also included a Siegfried grave , which Emperor Friedrich III. Opened in 1488, but without making any relevant finds.

In the 17th century, Juspa Schammes from Worms included an excerpt from the story in its own narrative variation in his Ma'asseh nissim story collection , in which a blacksmith kills the dragon that threatens Worms and then marries its queen.

Text output

• Wolfgang Golther (ed.): Das Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid after the printing department of the 16th century . With an appendix Das Volksbuch vom horned Siegfried according to the oldest edition (1726) (series of reprints of German literature works of the 16th and 17th centuries ). Niemeyer, Halle 1889 and 1911.
• Kenneth Charles King (Ed.): Das Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1958 ( edition and good introduction ).
• Peter Suchsland (ed.): German folk books in three volumes . Volume 1: History of the Horned Siegfried . Structure, Berlin and Weimar 1975.
• Siegfried Holzbauer (Ed.): Das Lied vom Hürnen Seyfrid . Newly illustrated by Siegfried Holzbauer. With contributions by Ralph Breyer. Wieser, Klagenfurt, Vienna a. a. 2001. ISBN 3-85129-348-7 .
• Verio Santoro: La ricezione della materia Nibelungica tra Medioevo ed Età moderna: The horny Seyfrid . Laveglia, Salerno 2003. ISBN 88-88773-04-5 .

Facsimile prints

• Otto Clemen (Hrsg.): Das Lied vom Hürnen Sewfried ( Zwickauer Facsimiledrucke , No. 6). F. Ullmann, Zwickau 1911.

literature

• Theodor Lindemann: Attempt of a theory of forms by Hürnen Seyfrid. With d. 24 woodcuts d. newly discovered Strasbourg print v. 1563 as an appendix . Niemeyer, Halle 1913.
• Roswitha Wisniewski: Das Heldenleben-Schema im Hürnen Seyfrid , in: Festschrift O. Höfler 1976, pp. 704–720.
• Volker-Jeske Kreyher: The Hürnen Seyfrid: the interpretation of the Siegfried figure in the late Middle Ages . Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1986. ISBN 3-8204-8245-8 .
• Claude Lecouteux: La legend de Siegfried d'après "La chanson de Seyfried à la Peau de Corne" et "La saga de Þiðrekr de Vérone" . Textes présentés et trad. Par Claude Lecouteux. Ed. du Porte-Glaive, Paris 1995. ISBN 2-906468-33-9 .
• Claude Lecouteux: La legend de Siegfried d'après "La chanson de Seyfried à la Peau de Corne" et "La saga de Þiðrekr de Vérone" . Textes présentés et trad. Par Claude Lecouteux. Ed. la Völva, Besançon 2015. ISBN 9791095451006 .
• Jürgen Beyer; John L. Flood: Siegfried in Livonia? A handwritten fragment of the song from the Hürnen Seyfrid from the Baltic States , in: Lied und popular Kultur / Song and Popular Culture. Yearbook of the German Folk Song Archive 45 (2000), pp. 35–71. ISSN  1619-0548 .
• Ralph Breyer: Der Hürnen Seyfrid: a research report . In: Legends and fairy tale motifs in the Nibelungenlied , 2002, pp. 97–120. ISBN 3-9806754-8-3 .

Web links

• Text of the 1958 edition of Kenneth Charles King in the Bibliotheca Augustana
• Text of the Nuremberg edition by Georg Wachter, around 1540, with woodcuts from a print from the 16th century (Memento) ( Memento from March 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Text of the Nuremberg edition by Georg Wachter, around 1540, with translation into French (Memento) ( Memento from July 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Suchsland (ed.): German folk books in three volumes . Volume 1: History of the Horned Siegfried . Structure, Berlin and Weimar 1975, p. 300.
2. ↑ Peter Suchsland (ed.): German folk books in three volumes . Volume 1: History of the Horned Siegfried . Structure, Berlin and Weimar 1975, p. 241.
3. ↑ A wonderful history of the horned Siegfried: what wonderful adventures this dear knight endured, worth remembering, and the like. to read with pleasure; from d. French translated into German, u. now overlooked again u. verb . Edition of the library of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Numerous new editions and reprints, most recently in 1979.
4. ↑ Eugen Kranzbühler: Worms and the heroic saga . Worms 1930, p. 84ff.
5. ↑ Juspa Schammes: The name of Worms and the key in his coat of arms . In: Fritz Reuter and Ulrike Schäfer: Miracle stories from Warmaisa. Juspa Schammes, his Ma'asseh nissim and the Jewish Worms in the 17th century . Warmaisa, Worms 2007, p. 36f. ISBN 3-00-017077-4 .