Leonine hexameter
The leonine hexameter (also leoninischer verse or Leoniner ; Latin versus leoninus ) is mainly in the Middle Latin popular poetry verse with six elevations (usually Hexameter , rare pentameter ) and caesura rhyme , that is, Penthemimeres and ship are (two-syllable common) through rhymes connected with each other. Examples:
- monosyllabic ( Waltharius , verse 27):
- Nobilis hoc Hagano / fuerat sub tempore tiro
- polysyllabic ( Archipoeta Homecoming from Salerno ):
- En habeno versus / te praecipiente reversus
- sit tibi fons laeta / versus recitante poeta
Examples of caesuristic pentameters already exist in antiquity, for example in Ovid ( Ars amatoria ), then in late Latin ( Sedulius ) and early medieval Latin poetry, especially widespread in the 10th and 11th centuries ( Waltharius , Ecbasis captivi , Ruodlieb ). A modern imitation is the Vaticinium Lehninense . Leonine verses are rare in German poetry. Examples can be found in Eberhard von Cersne ( Der Minne Regel ), Johannes Rothe ( From the offices of the cities and councilors of the princes ) and in the Baroque with Johann Fischart .
The origin of the name remains unclear. Erdmann traced it back to Pope Leo and the rhythmic sentence ending ( cursus and hence cursus leoninus ), which was particularly cultivated in his letters , alternatively an otherwise unknown poet of the 12th century named Leo or Leoninus was accepted as the namesake.
An elegiac distich formed from a Leonine hexameter and a pentameter is called a Leonine distich .
literature
- EDF Brogan: Leonine Rhyme, verse. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , p. 796 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- Dieter Burdorf, Christoph Fasbender, Burkhard Moennighoff (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon literature. Terms and definitions. 3. Edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 429 f.
- C. Erdmann: Leonitas. In: Corona Quernea: Festgabe Karl Strecker for his 80th birthday. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1941.
- Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 132.
- K. Strecker: Leonine hexameters and pentameters in the 9th century. In: New archive for older German history. Vol. 44 (1922), p. 213 ff.
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-520-84601-3 , p. 460.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burkhard Mönnighoff: couplet. In: Klaus Weimar (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft . Vol. 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-11-010896-8 , p. 379 f.