Ilsan
Ilsan (also "Ylsan", "Eilsan", "Elsan"), a militant monk, is a figure from the hero song of the rose garden in Worms . He is the brother of Hildebrand , the faithful follower of Dietrich von Bern, from the Nibelungenlied. After twenty years of monastic life, he moved from Bern to Worms as one of the twelve warriors of Dietrich to distinguish himself in the victorious competition at the court of Worms.
Role in the rose garden
Kriemhild, daughter of the Burgundy king Gibich, owns a magnificent rose garden in Worms. She sends a challenge letter to Dietrich von Bern and invites you to a tournament between the Burgundians and the Bernese. Each winner of the twelve individual competitions is promised a rosary and a kiss from Kriemhild. Hildebrand determines the Bernese fighters, from whom Dietleib and the monk Ilsan must first be fetched. In Worms, the Bernese are victorious in almost all duels. In a duel, Ilsan not only defeated Volker von Alzey , but also 52 other opponents, thus receiving 53 rosaries that he had promised his monk brothers on the exit. During the 53 kisses that Kriemhild has to give him, his rough beard scratches her face. The Burgundy King Gibich has to take his land from Dietrich as a fief. The Bernese are moving home. Ilsan returns to his monastery and presses the rosaries on his friars so that the blood runs down them.
Ilsan's monastery
With one exception, Isenburg (Ysenburg, Eisenburg ) is mentioned as the monastery town of Ilsans in the various manuscripts for the "Rosengarten" . Manuscript C only speaks of the monastery "Münchgenzelle" ( Mönchzell ). The manuscript C is a mixed version of the manuscripts A and D, but also formulates a not inconsiderable part independently, as the place name "Münchgenzelle" shows. The writer of the manuscript C, who presumably came from the Worms / Mainz / Heidelberg area, probably knew the place Mönchzell and moved Ilsan's monastery there.
Appreciation
Ilsan's figure draws its narrative charm from its ambiguity, which makes it oscillate between the sphere of the monastery and the warrior. While he is the indomitable, aggressive warrior for the confreres from his monastery, outside the monastery walls he is initially only perceived as a monk by the local warrior society, who asserts himself there through outstanding combative deeds. Ilsan constantly changes between the monastery and the warrior sphere without ultimately belonging to either sphere.
literature
Meinolf Schumacher : The monk as a hero or: From Ilsân's struggles and kisses in the “rose garden” poems . In: Yearbook of the Oswald von Wolkenstein Society . 14 (2003/04), pp. 91-104 PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zfdphdigital.de/ce/held-in-moenchskleidern-oder-moench-im-heldenkostuem-zur-wahrnung-ilsans-im-rosengarten-zu-worms/detail.html