Otfridvers

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Otfridvers (also Otfridscher Reimvers , (old German) Reimvers ) referred to in the Verslehre the in Otfrid of white Burgs Liber evangeliorum Old High German (870) for the first time appearing Endreimvers , which, beginning in the Carolingian period , the rod-rhyming long line increasingly repressed and significant influence on the development of German-language poetry took.

The meter is accentuating , often four-part with limited freedom of filling and also a free prelude . The closure is always male.

Two long lines result in the Otfrid strophe , viewed from the half-verse this corresponds to the pair-rhymed , four-line stanza that is extremely popular in German poetry up to the present day . Example:

Mánot únsih thísu fárt. ‖ Thaz it would be ánawárt
wír únsih óuh birúachèn ‖ inti éigan ĺant súachèn.

In New High German translation and as a four-line stanza:

This trip admonishes us to do so
that we ourselves are in the same way
take care of it with zeal
to inquire about the country of home

The verse is traced back to the Germanic long line, with the two half lines being connected by end rhyme instead of the allotted rhyme . But the long line need not have been the only root. This is how Heusler sees the metric model in the Ambrosian hymn verse . The similarities between the hymn and Otfried strophes were noticed by Wilhelm Wackernagel as early as 1846 . The prevailing view is that the Otfried strophe is a compromise between the long line and the hymn strophe, while the objection is that in the hymn strophe the end rhyme is by far not as important as in the Otfried strophe.

Other authors derive the Otfriedvers from the hexameter , such as Paul Hörmann and Friedrich Maurer . Friedrich Neumann gives a critical examination of Hörmann and Maurer .

Ewald Jammers also sees the hexameter as a literary model of the Otfridverses , whereby he sees the Otfridverses as a very complex structure: “The role of elevation is Germanic; the change in raising and lowering, at least in the metric scheme, goes back to the [Latin] Ritmi, but the freedoms in the lowering are again Germanic. "

The Otfrid strophe largely corresponds to the four-line Middle High German rhyming pair strophe (to be distinguished from the Latin forerunner, the pair rhyming strophe ), whereby four-part rhyming pairs with male cadence and three-part rhyming pairs verses with female cadence can occur alternately. One example is the kingdom sayings of Walther von der Vogelweide .

literature

  • Ivo Braak : Poetics in a nutshell. Basic literary terms. An introduction. 8th, revised and expanded edition. Bornträger, Berlin et al. 2001, ISBN 3-443-03109-9 , pp. 114, 124.
  • Otto Knörrich: Lexicon of lyrical forms (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 479). 2nd, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-47902-8 , p. 7f.
  • Otto Paul, Ingeborg Glier : German metrics. 9th edition. Hueber, Munich 1974, pp. 41-47.

Individual evidence

  1. Otfrid The Adoration of the Magician / Mystice [I, 18] v. 1-2.
  2. Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquity : Volume 7: Simple forms - Eugippius. 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1989, ISBN 3-11-011445-3 , pp. 278 f., sv Endreim.
  3. ^ Paul Hörmann: Investigations into the verse teaching Otfrids. In: Literature Yearbook of the Görres Society. Vol. 9, 1939, ZDB -ID 2553-7 , pp. 1–106, here p. 30 ff. (At the same time: Freiburg (Breisgau), University, dissertation, 1938).
  4. ^ Friedrich Maurer : About long lines and long line stanzas in the oldest German poetry. In: Karl Friedrich Müller (Hrsg.): Contributions to linguistics and folklore. Festschrift for Ernst Ochs on his 60th birthday. Schauenburg, Lahr 1951, pp. 31–52, especially p. 33 ff.
  5. Friedrich Neumann : Otfried's conception of verse construction. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature. Vol. 79, special volume, 1957, ISSN  0323-424X , pp. 249-306.
  6. Ewald Jammers : The medieval German epic and music. In: Heidelberger Jahrbücher. Vol. 1, 1957, pp. 31-90, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-45884-2_3 .
  7. Ewald Jammers: The musical presentation of the old German epic. In: German lessons. Vol. 11, H. 2, 1959, ISSN  0340-2258 , pp. 98-116, citation p. 110.