Reinfried of Braunschweig

Reinfried von Braunschweig , also Reinfrid or Reinfrit , is an only partially preserved medieval verse novel that was written towards the end of the 13th century . Since the loss of Accons is mentioned in verse 17980, the work was written after 1291. Other assumptions assume that it was built in the first half of the 14th century.

The only surviving manuscript is in the holdings of the University and Research Library Erfurt / Gotha (Gotha, Cod. Memb. II 42). It consists of 163 sheets of parchment measuring 22.5 cm × 16.1 cm.

The novel, about Minne and Âventiure , comprises 27,627 verses. The text is said to have been written by an unknown Swiss author or an author from the Lake Constance area.

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It is a two-part work, with verses 65-12658 comprising a story of love and advertising. The youthful Duke Reinfried woos the Danish princess Yrkane. As a prize for a tournament victory, he receives a kiss from her. During Reinfried's adventure trip, Yrkane is slandered by a knight with false accusations. Reinfried returns in time and defeats this knight in battle. Reinfried kidnaps Yrkane from the battlefield. He captures the father who is persecuting her, but is reconciled with him and successfully applies for the hand of the Danish princess. However, the marriage remained without children for over ten years. In order to receive an heir, Reinfried has to take a cruise to the Holy Land, as it is revealed to him in the dream.

This is followed by the second part in verses 12919–27627, a story of traveling and returning home. Reinfried hands over rule to his wife and moves with 800 knights to the Holy Land, where he performs heroic deeds and liberates Jerusalem. He accompanies the defeated Persian king, who has become a friend, to the Orient. There he meets mythical human beings and sirens , fights amazons and finds a magnetic mountain. The work reports, among other things, of a fight against an army of "crane people", who are also mentioned in the verse novel Herzog Ernst (date of origin around 1180).

Yrkane gave birth to a boy at home, of which Reinfried received news. Honored and richly gifted by the rulers of the Orient, he embarks on the adventurous journey home. He fights against robbers, is shipwrecked and stranded on a distant island. At this point the text of the handwriting breaks off. Probably a third of the entire text is missing.

One interpretation of Reinfried is that it is an imaginative reception of Henry the Lion's journey to the Orient .

Translation from Middle High German

Elisabeth Martschini (Ed.): Reinfried von Braunschweig. 3 volumes, Solivagus, Kiel 2018–2019.
- Volume I: Verses 1-6.834, ISBN 978-3-943025-34-7 .
- Volume II: Verses 6.835-17.980, ISBN 978-3-943025-35-4 .
- Volume III: Verses 17.981-27.627, ISBN 978-3-943025-36-1 .

literature

Elisabeth Martschini (ed. And transl.): Reinfried von Braunschweig . Volume I, verses 1 - 6,834. Kiel, Solivagus-Verlag 2017. ISBN 978-3-943025-34-7 .
Karl Bartsch (Ed.): Reinfrid von Braunschweig. Tuebingen 1871.
Karl Gödeke : Reinfrit from Braunschweig Hanover 1851.
Paul Gereke : Studies on Reinfried von Braunschweig (PDF; 2.7 MB) Halle an der Saale, 1898.
Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature , self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2003, p. 14f, without ISBN.
Norbert H. Ott: Reinfried v. Braunschweig . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters VII, Munich 2003, Sp. 667, ISBN 3-423-59057-2 .
Elisabeth Martschini: Writing and writing in courtly narrative texts of the 13th century . Kiel, Solivagus-Verlag 2014, pp. 262–556. ISBN 978-3-943025-14-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Horst Brunner: Approaches to books.google.de
↑ ^a ^b Norbert H. Ott: Reinfried v. Braunschweig . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters VII, Munich 2003, Sp. 667.
↑ ^a ^b Manuscript Census
^ ^A ^b Albert Leitzmann : To Reinfried von Braunschweig. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature . tape 1923 , no. 47 , 2009, p. 142–152 , doi : 10.1515 / bgsl.1923.1923.47.142 .
↑ Hans-Joachim Behr: The afterlife of Heinrich the lion in the literature of the late Middle Ages . In: Jochen Luckhardt , Franz Niehoff and Gerd Biegel (eds.): Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit , catalog of the exhibition Braunschweig 1995, volume 3, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6900-9 , p. 11.

[Brunner-1] Horst Brunner: Approaches to books.google.de

[Ott-2] Norbert H. Ott: Reinfried v. Braunschweig . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters VII, Munich 2003, Sp. 667.

[Handschriftencensus-3] Manuscript Census

[leitzmann-4] A ^b Albert Leitzmann : To Reinfried von Braunschweig. In: Contributions to the history of the German language and literature . tape 1923 , no. 47 , 2009, p. 142–152 , doi : 10.1515 / bgsl.1923.1923.47.142 .

[5] Hans-Joachim Behr: The afterlife of Heinrich the lion in the literature of the late Middle Ages . In: Jochen Luckhardt , Franz Niehoff and Gerd Biegel (eds.): Heinrich der Löwe und seine Zeit , catalog of the exhibition Braunschweig 1995, volume 3, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7774-6900-9 , p. 11.