German Romance I
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Alberich de Besançon
Arthurian romance
Boston College
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Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal
dwarves
English rendering
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German Romance
giants
knights
Massachusetts.
Middle High German
Middle High German text
originality
Product details
- ISBN 9780859917933
- Weight: 806g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Edition and translation of the first freely invented German Arthurian romance.
Der Stricker's Daniel is the first freely invented German Arthurian romance, bringing the genre to a new level of originality. Beginning with Hartmann von Aue's Erec (c.1185) and up until Daniel (c.1210-25),German poets had drawn their tales of King Arthur's knights exclusively from the world of the French romance, most commonly from the oeuvre of the great romançier Chrétien de Troyes; but in relating his eponymous hero's adventuresagainst giants, dwarves and fellow knights, der Stricker made a clean break with this tradition, claims that he received his story from the French poet Alberich de Besançon being considered a formula only.
This volume presents for the first time together both the original Middle High German text of Daniel and a full English rendering of the 8,482 verses, on facing pages; the text is accompanied by extensive notes, bibliography, and index.
MICHAEL RESLER is Professor of German Studies, Boston College, Massachusetts.
