Caridole

Karidol ( Middle High German Karidôl ) is in the Iwein epic and in large parts of the German-speaking Arthurian epic of the Middle Ages the court of King Arthur and also forms the starting point of the plot. An English equivalent is Cardoel, Cardueil, Kardevyle (which Georg Friedrich Benecke wanted to equate with Carlile in Cumberland), another Caerleon in Wales, which Geoffrey of Monmouth brought into connection with Arthur. In Erec and often in Lanzelet the place is called Karadigân; whereas Camelot, today often associated with Arthur, is found in the writings of Chrétien de Troyes .

Ez het der künec Artûs ze Karidôl in sîn hûs to accompany Pentecost after rîcher habit an alsô beautiful hôchzît Your beautiful never won.

King Arthur had to Karidol at his court on Pentecost according to an often cultivated habit hosted such a beautiful festival like him before and after had celebrated no more splendidly.

( Hartmann von Aue : Iwein. Translated by Manfred Stange. Wiesbaden ³2006)

literature

• Hartmann von Aue: Iwein. Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-86539-073-0