Saying from the round table
The Spruch von den Tafelrundern is a catalog-like saying poem in 256 rhyming verses, probably from the end of the 15th century, which briefly characterizes around 160 literarily known figures, particularly from Arthurian literature .
The text has been handed down in manuscripts that go back to Ladislaus Sunthaym . Hermann Menhardt edited it in 1955 based on the Vienna Cod. 7692 (written around 1510 by Wolfgang Hammerl, a secretary of Maximilian I , among the Sunthaym collections). At the end is the year 1511. Munich clm 1231 is a fair copy of the version in Vienna Cod. 7692 designed by Sunthaym for Maximilian I, while Munich clm 2866 is a copy of clm 1231 made in the 18th century. It is uncertain whether a German poem once in the library of the gentlemen from Zimmer was the saying “of many heroibus” by the round table.
It is believed that the saying originated in the vicinity of the Wittelsbacher Hof in Munich .
For Nikolaus Henkel, the saying “represents a kind of abbreviated sum of courtly narrative literature, in that it arranges the immense materiality of the material present and makes it manageable in a tight space” (column 190).
literature
- Nikolaus Henkel in author's lexicon 2nd ed. Vol. 9, Sp. 188–190 (published 1993) Google Books
- WH Jackson, Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundern, in: Arthur of the Germans, 2002 ISBN 0-7083-1776-6 (not evaluated)
