Heinous

The Heunenweise (also Hunnenweise or Hönweis (e) ) is a stanza form . It represents a modification of Hildebrandston's : a four-line stanza made up of two-part long lines , in which not only the abvers but also the anvers are rhymed in pairs . The anverse are four- lever with a female (sounding) closure and the abverse are three-lever with a male (blunt) closure. The verse scheme is:

4wa / 3mb

4wc / 3md

In contrast to the Nibelungen strophe , as in the Hildebrandstone, the last abvers (like the previous ones) only has 3, not 4 liftings.

As an example stanza 309 of the 'Dresdner Laurin ':

Laurein the silence; / thou said the congregation :
'vil noble konick, I will / win you one,
so we can get out / should we be trapped?
we have nimant dausse, / neither dwarf nor dwarf. '

(Laurin was silent. Then the beautiful princess said: 'High King, I will get you escort, then we will come out. Should we be captured? We have no one outside, no dwarf and no dwarf.')

From the Heunenweise the common verse form of the development in the German folk song cross rhyming eight-liner according to the scheme:

3wa

3mb

3wa

3mb

3wc

3md

3wc

3md

literature

Horst Joachim Frank : Handbook of the German strophic forms. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen / Basel 1993, ISBN 3-7720-2221-9 , pp. 573-579.
Joachim Heinzle: Introduction to Middle High German Dietrichepik . de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-015094-8 , p. 145 ff., here p. 153 f.