Lower Rhine Tundalus

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The so-called Lower Rhine Tundalus is a fragment of a Middle High German translation of the Latin Visio Tnugdali by an unknown author.

The Visio Tnugdali reports the journey of the soul of the knight Tundalus through the hereafter ; the text was very popular in the Middle Ages and has been translated into numerous vernacular languages. The processing by Priest Alber and the "Niederrheinische Tundalus" are the earliest translations into the German language. Due to the tradition, however, one is of the opinion that these two Middle High German versions were not granted any notable success: Alber's text has survived in a single manuscript , from the “Lower Rhine Tundalus” we have only three fragments of a manuscript (the prologue and parts of two of the places of punishment seen, a total of 508 verses).

The fragments of this Berlin manuscript (Prussian State Library, Ms. germ. 4 ° 642) are now in Cracow ( Biblioteka Jagiellońska of the Jagiellonian University ). The manuscript dates from the 1st quarter of the 13th century and is written in the Hessian writing language. The dialect of the poet of the "Lower Rhine Tundalus" , on the other hand, was Middle Franconian. The poem is dated differently; the information varies between 1160 and 1190.

The poem already uses pure rhymes very often. It adheres closely to the Latin model, but makes the presentation more lively overall.

literature

Edition

  • Carl Kraus (ed.): German poems of the twelfth century , Halle 1894, pages 46–62, notes on pages 217–246

Secondary literature

  • Franz H. Bäuml: The Middle-Franconian Tundalus-Fragments: Translation or Adaptation? , in: Neophilologus 44/1960, page 116-120
  • Klaus Düwel: The “Visio Tundali”. Editing tendencies and intended effects of vernacular versions in the 12th and 13th centuries , in: Hagen Keller , Nikolaus Staubach (ed.): Iconologia Sacra. Myth, Visual Art and Poetry in the Religious and Social History of Old Europe (FS Karl Hauck), Berlin / New York 1994, pages 529–545 ISBN 3-11-013255-9
  • Nigel F. Palmer: "Visio Tnugdali". The German and Dutch Translations and their Circulation in the Later Middle Ages , (= Munich Texts and Studies on German Medieval Literature; Volume 76), Munich 1982 ISBN 3-7608-3376-4
  • Nigel F. Palmer: The handwriting of the Lower Rhine "Tundalus" fragments , in: Journal for German Philology 108, special issue 1989, pages 115-131

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