Orendel
The Orendel is a Middle High German verse epic in Middle Franconian . It was made at the end of the 12th century , but has only survived in much later versions. There was a handwritten version from 1477 (burned in Strasbourg in 1870) as well as a printed version and a printed prose version, both Augsburg editions from 1512 .
In the musician's poem , which is a mixture of the legend of saints and the adventure of a knight , a courtship and kidnapping story is told, in which the legend of the gray skirt of Christ protecting his wearer Orendel in battle is woven. The late antique novel about Apollonios of Tire was used as a framework for the Orendel. The poem was supposed to stimulate the pilgrimage to the Holy Rock in Trier .
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Orendel, the son of the king of Trier, is supposed to marry Bride, the queen of Jerusalem. His fleet sinks due to a collision with an iceberg and he survives alone. In the belly of a whale he finds a gray skirt, which later gives him his name. Back from the whale's belly, he meets Bride, they marry, and Orendel becomes master of Jerusalem.
Karl Joseph Simrock was in 1845 a High German translation under the title "The unsewn rock of Christ, or King Orendel" out.
expenditure
- Orendel , facsimile edition of the verse and prose version based on the prints from 1512, edited and with a foreword by Ludwig Denecke, (= Metzler Collection; Volume 111), Stuttgart 1972
- Walter Johannes Schröder (ed.): Sankt Oswald, Orendel, Salman and Morolf , (= Spielmannsepen; Volume 2), Darmstadt 1976
literature
- Corinna Biesterfeldt: Moniage - the retreat from the world as a narrative ending: Investigations on "Kaiserchronik", "König Rother", "Orendel", "Barlaam und Josaphat", "Prosa-Lancelot" , (partly acc .: Mainz, Univ. , Diss., 2002), Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3-7776-1238-3
- Johannes Egberts: The scheme of the delivery of a messenger, messenger journey, journey, Reckenfahrt and army journey in the imperial chronicle and in the epics King Rother, Rolandslied, Munich Oswald, Salman and Morolf, Orendel, Kudrun, Wolfdietrich A, B, D , (Munich, Univ. , Phil. Fak. II, Diss. From 1972), Munich 1972
- Uwe Meves: Studies on König Rother, Herzog Ernst and Grauer Rock (Orendel) , (= European university publications: Series 1, German Literature and German Studies; Volume 181), (Rev. zugl .: Erlangen-Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 1975/76), Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1976 ISBN 3-261-02162-4