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Texte und Studien zur mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik

Edited by: Florian Kragl

ISSN: 1611-7581

In der Reihe "Texte und Studien zur mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik" werden die noch nicht in modernen wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben zugänglichen Heldenepen nach dem Leithandschriftenprinzip mit sorgfältiger Dokumentation der Fassungsunterschiede und Überlieferungsvarianz ediert, ergänzt durch Untersuchungen zur Text- und Überlieferungsgeschichte.

Book 2020

Dynamiken von Macht und Herrschaft

Freundschaftskonzeptionen in der Heldenepik der ersten Hälfte des 13. Jahrhunderts

Anne-Katrin Federow

Volume 13 in this series

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This study analyses the representation of friendship in the Middle High German epic poems of the first half of the 13^th century. Drawing on the sociology of domination and power developed by Max Weber and Heinrich Popitz, the author examines various concepts of friendship in adaptations of chanson de geste of Germanic and Romance provenance and explores their central functional relevance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660906
ISBN:: 9783110660906
ISBN:: 9783110659467
ISBN:: 9783110659382
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Sigenot

Elisabeth Lienert, Elisa Pontini, Stephanie Baumgarten

Volume 12 in this series

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The Sigenot poem, transmitted in manuscripts and printed until the 17^th century, tells of Dietrich’s von Bern capture by the giant Sigenot and his liberation by Hildebrand. This new edition, which closely follows the transmitted materials, presents two versions of the fantastical Dietrich poem: a short version (the “elder Sigenot”) and a more comprehensive version (the “younger Sigenot”), along with an alternative rendering of the latter.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626360
ISBN:: 9783110626360
ISBN:: 9783110621525
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Mythology and Folk Literature
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Brüchige Helden - brüchiges Erzählen

Mittelhochdeutsche Heldenepik aus narratologischer Sicht

Anne-Katrin Federow, Kay Malcher, Marina Münkler

Volume 11 in this series

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The volume compiles presentations from the Dresden Conference on Narratology in the Middle-High German Heroic Epic. Its focus is on the potential value and limitations of applying modern narratological heuristics.The essays also document the broad formal scope of the heroic epic narrative.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110521733
ISBN:: 9783110521733
ISBN:: 9783110520132
ISBN:: 9783110520095
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Narratology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Virginal. Goldemar

Teilband I: Einleitung, 'Heidelberger Virginal'; Teilband II: 'Wiener Virginal'; Teilband III: 'Dresdner Virginal', 'Goldemar', Verzeichnisse

Elisabeth Lienert, Elisa Pontini, Katrin Schumacher

Volume 10 in this series

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Virginal narrates a youthful tale by Dietrich von Bern: the liberation of Queen Virginal from a cruel heathen captor and other battles with heathens, giants, and dragons. The new edition offers three versions of the adventurous epic that differ in scope, wording, and the constitution of meaning, along with the thematically related Goldemar fragment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110477931
ISBN:: 9783110477931
ISBN:: 9783110476781
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Der Wunderer

Florian Kragl

Volume 9 in this series

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Wunderer is a latecomer among German heroic epics and one of the last representatives of the subspecies known as the Dietrich epic. For the first time, this edition compiles all preserved versions in a form that is close to their tradition: the strophic version of the Dresden Heldenbuch and the Strasbourg edition (in synoptic presentation), both couplet fragments, and the Shrovetide play.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400243
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040015-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040024-3
ISBN:: 9783110400335
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2015

Rosengarten

Teilband I: Einleitung, 'Rosengarten' A. Teilband II: 'Rosengarten' DP. Teilband III: 'Rosengarten' C, 'Rosengarten' F, 'Niederdeutscher Rosengarten'

Elisabeth Lienert, Sonja Kerth, Svenja Nierentz

Volume 8 in this series

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This new edition of the Dietrich epic Rosengarten documents the marked textual variations of the heroic epic. It includes three variants of Version A of the poem; Versions D and P of Version DP; the mixed version C; the fragments of a Version F; and a fragment of the Low-German Rosengarten. Explanations concerning textual sources, the stemma, and editorial processes are complemented by indices listing literature and names.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110365276
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036786-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036527-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Textual Scholarship
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2013

Narrative 'Motivation von unten'

Zur Versionenkonstitution von 'Virginal' und 'Laurin'

Björn Michael Harms

Volume 7 in this series

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The so-called ‘adventurous Dietrich’ epics have survived in a number of very different versions. This monograph examines the stories Virginal and Laurin and develops a method that makes it possible to understand the differences between the versions independent of stemmatological findings, thus making them useful for interpretation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297126
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029695-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-029712-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2012

Laurin

Teilband I: Einleitung, Ältere Vulgatversion, 'Walberan'. Teilband II: 'Preßburger Laurin', 'Dresdner Laurin', Jüngere Vulgatversion, Verzeichnisse

Elisabeth Lienert, Sonja Kerth, Esther Vollmer-Eicken

Volume 6 in this series

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Laurin tells the story of Dietrich von Bern’s war with the gnome king Laurin, the destruction of Laurin’s rose garden, and the liberation of an abducted virgin. Many versions of the story varying in length, wording, and in some cases emphasis are found in numerous documents. This new edition presents different versions of the story and provides thorough documentation of the variations in the historical manuscripts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110279931
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025819-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027993-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2011

Die ‘historische’ Dietrichepik

Untersuchungen zu ‘Dietrichs Flucht’, ‘Rabenschlacht’, ‘Alpharts Tod’

Elisabeth Lienert

Volume 5 in this series

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The so-called ‘historical’ Dietrich epics, the thirteenth-century Middle High German heroic epics dealing with Dietrich von Bern (Verona), the corresponding saga of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic the Great, tells of Dietrich’s warring conflicts with his uncle Ermanaric to gain the rule of Northern Italy. The monograph elucidates the text group (the flight epics ‛Dietrich’s Flight’ and ‘The Battle of Ravenna’ and the associated epic ‛The Death of Alphart’) from the perspective of literary history.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110251326
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025131-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025132-6
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2008

Dietrich-Testimonien des 6. bis 16. Jahrhunderts

Elisabeth Lienert

Volume 4 in this series

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The volume is intended primarily as an updating of William Grimm’s Deutsche Heldensage [The German Heroic Legend] (4th ed. 1957, first published 1829) relating to the tradition of Dietrich von Bern. It documents testimonies to Dietrich von Bern (and his historical predecessor, the Ostrogothic King Theoderic the Great) in literature, historiography and visual art from the 6th to the 16th centuries, and in so doing provides important material for studies into the history of legend, which in their turn form an indispensable source for the analysis of the texts and their intertextuality and in the context of enquiries into historicity and literarisation, tradition and innovation, and into conceptions of heroes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110973532
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64504-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097353-2
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Medieval History
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: 16th-17th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Individual Motifs, Motif Research
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2007

Alpharts Tod. Dietrich und Wenezlan

Elisabeth Lienert, Viola Meyer

Volume 3 in this series

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This is the third of the new Bremen editions of heroic epics related to Dietrich von Bern. The texts of ›Alpharts Tod‹ (late 13th century) and ›Dietrich und Wenezlan‹ (13th century) are given in a form that reflects the course of their transmission. Modern punctuation has been added. ›Alpharts Tod‹ centres on the killing of Dietrich's follower Alphart by Heime and Witege, ›Dietrich und Wenezlan‹ on the fight between Dietrich von Bern and King Wenezlan. Errors and gaps in the manuscripts are documented. Commentaries on selected passages facilitate access to the texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110947212
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64503-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094721-2
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2005

Rabenschlacht

Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe

Elisabeth Lienert, Dorit Wolter

Volume 2 in this series

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This is the second of the new Bremen editions of epic poems centring around Dietrich von Bern. In its content, the text of the »Rabenschlacht« (13th century) takes up where »Dietrichs Flucht« left off. The subject matter is a further abortive victory by Dietrich over his adversary Ermrich in the battle near Ravenna. The edition largely follows the written language of the leithandschrift (manuscript R). Differences in the various versions and other deviations of significance from a text-historical viewpoint are documented. Commentaries on the use of language and on references requiring explanation are printed below the ongoing text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918021
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64502-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091802-1
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2003

Dietrichs Flucht

Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe

Elisabeth Lienert, Gertrud Beck

Volume 1 in this series

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This volume presents the first of the Bremen editions of the historical epics on Dietrich of Berne. The text of »Dietrichs Flucht« (13th century) is an epic description of Dietrich's banishment, his exile, and the fruitless battles he fought in an attempt to return to his native territory. It is given here in accordance with the Leithandschrift (leading or central manuscript) principle. Essentially, the edition adheres to the written language in the manuscripts, adding modern punctuation. Different versions and other deviations relevant from the text-historical viewpoint are documented. A commentary on key passages facilitates access to the text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110912555
ISBN:: 978-3-484-64501-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091255-5
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Subject:: Literary Genres and Media
Subject:: Genre Studies, general
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book Ahead of Publication 2025

Das Jüngere Hildebrandslied

Sämtliche hochdeutschen, niederdeutschen, jiddischen, niederländischen und dänischen Fassungen und Versionen

Florian Kragl, Milena Müller

Volume 14 in this series

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The Early New High German "Jüngeres Hildebrandslied" was a veritable hit. Richly documented, it radiated from German into Yiddish, Dutch, and Danish, with its melody finding its way into the vocal polyphony of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This volume is the first to present editions of the complete versions and variants, including musical scores, flanked by an extensive literary-historical and text-critical introduction.

ISBN:: 9783111556970
ISBN:: 9783111555713
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 8th-15th Century
Publisher:: De Gruyter