Nibelungen of Worms

The Nibelungen von Worms are a high mediaeval family association in the Worms area suspected by Jürgen Breuer .

Based on a possible lead name Nibelung, Breuer ascribes a Nibelung to this adopted family in 1128 as a witness of a document among imperial ministerials . Worms clergy and ministerials or nobles of this name, several documents can be found in the 12th and 13th centuries, he also connects everyone with that family. Based on the nicknames of the bearers of this name, he linked the Worms family ante monetam , the lords of Wolfskehlen , the von Diemerstein and the von Abenheim family to form a family association.

He assigns this family association, which he constructed, a role in the creation of the Nibelungenlied . Bligger von Steinach , who Jürgen Breuer considers to be the poet of the Nibelungenlied, had obtained knowledge of traditions from Burgundian Carolingian relatives, who commissioned a continuation of the chronicle of the so-called Fredegar (among them also bearers of the name Nibelung), through contacts with members of the Worms Nibelungs .

Breuer's theses on the Nibelungenlied are viewed as very speculative in German medieval studies.

literature

Jürgen Breuer: The Nibelung family in the Worms area: origin, domicile and official functions in the High Middle Ages. In: Where did our ancestors live? Location references in genealogy. 59th German Genealogy Day, September 14-17, 2007, Heinrich Pesch Haus, Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Conference proceedings. Degener, Insingen 2008, ISBN 9783768630832 , pp. 243-264.

Remarks

↑ Cf. RI IV, 1,1 n.178, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/1128-12-27_1_0_4_1_1_178_178 (accessed on December 8, 2014).
↑ Much more cautious: Sabine Happ: becoming a city on the Middle Rhine. The leadership groups from Speyer, Worms and Koblenz until the end of the 13th century. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002 ( Rheinisches Archiv 144) ISBN 3-412-12901-1 , here pp. 275–276 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ See also Werner Wunderlich: Bligger von Steinach. In: Francis G. Gentry, Winder McConnell, Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich (eds.): The Nibelungen Tradition. To Encyclopedia. Routledge, New York and London 2002 ISBN 0-8153-1785-9 , p. 196.
↑ See e.g. B. the reviews by Jürgen Wolf in: Contributions to the history of German language and literature 130 (2008) 3, pp. 528–532 ( DOI: 10.1515 / bgsl.2008.062 ) and by Werner Hoffmann in: Journal for German antiquity and German literature 136 (2007) 4, pp. 517-525 ( JSTOR 20658517 ).

[1] Cf. RI IV, 1,1 n.178, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/1128-12-27_1_0_4_1_1_178_178 (accessed on December 8, 2014).

[2] Much more cautious: Sabine Happ: becoming a city on the Middle Rhine. The leadership groups from Speyer, Worms and Koblenz until the end of the 13th century. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2002 ( Rheinisches Archiv 144) ISBN 3-412-12901-1 , here pp. 275–276 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[3] See also Werner Wunderlich: Bligger von Steinach. In: Francis G. Gentry, Winder McConnell, Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich (eds.): The Nibelungen Tradition. To Encyclopedia. Routledge, New York and London 2002 ISBN 0-8153-1785-9 , p. 196.

[4] See e.g. B. the reviews by Jürgen Wolf in: Contributions to the history of German language and literature 130 (2008) 3, pp. 528–532 ( DOI: 10.1515 / bgsl.2008.062 ) and by Werner Hoffmann in: Journal for German antiquity and German literature 136 (2007) 4, pp. 517-525 ( JSTOR 20658517 ).