Mannigfual

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The Mannigfual (also "De Almacht", "Het Grote Schip" or "Het Schip van Ternuten") is a gigantic ship that appears in the legends of the North and Baltic Seas. The masts are so high that the young sailors come back on deck as old, gray-haired tar jackets after working on the mast. On the way they are fed in canteens that are in the blocks of the rigging . The captain only moves on horseback on the spacious deck.

Various adventures are reported in the sagas.

After being driven into the Atlantic, the ship got stuck in the English Channel on its way back , so that one could walk from France to Great Britain without getting wet. In this predicament, the master came up with the idea of ​​greasing the ship on the port side with white soap so that it slipped back into the North Sea. The rocks in Dover are said to have turned white for this reason.

When the ship ran aground in the shallow Baltic Sea, the captain had all ballast and furnace ash thrown overboard. This is how Bornholm came into being, and the fireclay bricks from the galley stove became the small islands of Christiansö , Frederiksø , Græsholm and Tat.

In Friesland the story of eight-year-old Jobken from Urk is told, who hired as a cabin boy because he was tired of the daily pea soup at home. As a shipwrecked man, he escaped on the Mannigfual and boasted of how well he could row. Then he had to help in the galley and use a rowboat to stir the pea soup in a huge pot. Fortunately, the ship came into the Zuiderzee and was attacked by Urker pirates. Jobken recognized his home and was able to save himself back home. When turning, the Mannigfual damaged some church towers with the bowsprit before she found her way back to the North Sea.

literature

  • Karl Müllenhoff: Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.
  • Berend de Vries : Dat Schipp “Mannigfual” poems and ballads.
  • Ludwig Bechstein : German book of legends. Hendel Verlag, Meersburg, 1930
  • Roger Pilkington: We don't have glass on board. , Leisure Library, Hamburg
  • Alet Schouten: Popular behavior in the Landen location. Illustrations by Anton Pieck. Houten 1989, pp. 6-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Het Grote Schip , Nederlandse Volksverhalenbank, Meertens Institute, accessed on February 26, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Mannigfual , Sagen.at, accessed on February 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ The giant ship Mannigfual , Zeno.org , accessed on February 24, 2018.