Poytislier

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Poytislier by Ulrich Füetrer is a verse novel of late medieval literature written in the titular stanza and part of the so-called Book of Adventures . He is there in sixth position in the second part.

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The actual story is preceded by a prologue with patron praise addressed to Albrecht IV of Bavaria . Before the birth of the knight Poytislier, there is the past life of his parents, who come together on a courtship trip with the help of the landless Lorandin and his trickster helper. Poytisliers youth went without a crisis, he received the sword line from his father far away from Arthur's court , helped with the liberation of Lorandin's kingdom and took part in the hunt for a white stag. This is where the first crisis situation begins: Poytislier gets lost and, guided by a message on the leash of his hound , meets the beautiful fairy queen Floraklar. Out of clumsiness, he deprives them of a night of love together. In anger, Floraklar separates from him and Poytislier, in love and remorseful, begins a search for her. On this quest he travels the world disguised as a minstrel until his parents die and he cedes the legitimate royal dignity over his home kingdom to his sister. He then hired himself out as a mercenary in the Kingdom of Rankulat and got into the second crisis situation. At court, Poytislier falls out of favor when he puts the beauty of his lady Floraklar above that of the Queen of Rankulat. The king then takes Poytislier's men hostage and demands proof in the form of a personal introduction from Floraklar in order to release them. In this situation, Poytislier travels to Artus Court, passes a virtue stone test there and now proves himself by observing a command of silence during a magic forest episode commissioned by Artus. This is followed by a series of fights and a second probation with the fairy ladies Helena and Dulzepta on the journey to the fairy land, to which he translates with a swan. At the court of Floraklar there is finally a reconciliation, all open obligations are clarified, Poytislier and Floraklar get married and remain independent of their secular neighbors in the fairy land.

structure

Occasional attempts have been made to track down the so-called double course of the classical Arthurian novels in the structure of the Poytislier , which has been declared typical of the genre . The complexity of the narrative, the appearance of a largely crisis-free hero and leader working method to produce texts for literarily educated connoisseurs through intertextual allusions stand in the way of this. The two crisis situations in the history of Poytislier do not correspond to the scheme of the double course. By rejecting Floraklar, Poytislier violated an imperative to act that literally became a "loser" with the opposite sign and was only cleared up with the probation against the ladies of Floraklar's court. The knight violates the commandment of silence about the beauty of his lady without having been informed beforehand. In the course of the plot he will overcome this crisis by observing an official requirement of silence. However, the Poytislier accesses other common narrative patterns by about the schemes of 'Dangerous courtship' or 'disturbed Mahrtenehe uses'.

literature

  • Ulrich Fuetrer: The book of adventure . Edited by Heinz Thoelen and Bernd Bastert. Goeppingen 1997.
  • Ulrich Fuetrer: Poytislier. From the book of adventures . Edited by Friederike Weber, (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek, Vol. 52), Tübingen 1960.
  • Volker Mertens: The German Arthurian novel . Reclams Universal Library. Vol. 17609. Stuttgart 1998, pp. 301-340, ISBN 3-15-017609-3 .
  • Edward G. Fichtner: A knight's progress: ideal and reality in Ulrich Füetrer's “Poytislier” . In: Monatshefte 74 (1982), pp. 419-432.
  • Stephen L. Wailes: Theme and structure in Ulrich Fuetrer's “Poytislier” . In: Modern Language Notes 92 (1977), pp. 577-582.
  • Armin Schulz: splitting fantasies. Telling of the “disturbed marriage marriage” . In: Wolfram-Studien 18 (2004), pp. 233-262, especially pp. 244-250.