Annolied

The 49 stanzas comprehensive vernacular Annolied was probably probably written 1077-1081, at least before 1100, in the early Middle High German couplet verses from a Siegburger monk. As a reference point for dating applies the mention of Mainz as a coronation. The coronations of the German kings were usually held in Aachen; therefore, the disclosure may relate only to the period after the coronation of the anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden 1077 or to the coronation of Henry V. 1106. The author is anonymous, most evidence points to its origin in the Rhine Franconian region, especially the triangle Hersfeld- Saalfeld- Bamberg. As a client comes Reginhard Abbot of Siegburg in question.

The original manuscript of the Anno song is missing. Earliest surviving evidence is Martin Opitz first edition of 1639 and part footprint by Bonaventura Vulcanius. Both used closely related, but not identical templates. Since its first edition the Annolied large research interest has attracted, according to extensive is the research literature. These works of Opitz ( 1639 ), Parnassus Boicus (1723 ), Wilhelm Wilmann (1887 ), Roediger (1895 ), Itten Bach (1937 /38), Knab (1962 ), Thomas (1968 /77), Nellmann are ( new edition 1975 ) and Eickermann (handwriting Fund 1976).

Content and structure

The Annolied is a unique, atypical, but not singular text that eludes a unique genre assignment; most likely the Annolied can be described as a history gasket. Its main theme is the glorification of the controversial Archbishop of Cologne Anno II (around 1010 to 1075 ) for the purpose of canonization. In this life Anno is stylized and presented de-individualized, in the foreground is the timeless model character of his life and work. Larger space than the Vita Anno ( verses 33-49 ) takes a double discourse of history from the dawn of time to the present of the poet: one strand represents the history of salvation, the other the history of the world. In the history of salvation ( verses 2-7) the three- world scheme falls on the Creation divided by the God in a spiritual, in rem, and a third world that is between the other two worlds and is embodied by the people. Their ideal is representative Anno. In world history part ( verses 8-33 ) the Annolied poet links the Roman history with the history of German so that Caesar appears as the starting point in German history. Caesar rises the German tribes to co-and world domination. At the end of this strand Anno stands as the 33rd bishop of Cologne.

A more recent interpretation of Dunphy and Herweg sees as key to the structure of the work, the statement of the poet in the prologue that God had originally created two "worlds", in order to create a secular and spiritual, that he had then mixed people, so to speak, a "third world " is. This idea goes back to the theology of John Scotus Eriugena. The verse is of central importance when considering the structure of the whole work in this light goes: The poet first reported the story of salvation, then the profane history, and then he mixes them in the biography of a man: Anno. So is the combination of history and hagiography, which was considered puzzling long, easy to understand.

For the structural outline the numerical symbolism is of some importance, especially the key numbers 3, 4, 7 and 33 The Annolied is considered a model case number adhesive designed seal, a zahlensymbolische penetration has not, however, widely used in the interpretation. The historical picture of Anno song acknowledges profane arguments an unusually high rank. Origin and nature of the empire be on a new, Kaiser Pope problem enthobenen basis. Are the historical backgrounds ( Reich turmoil, Investiture Controversy ), of great importance for the understanding of the Anno song. In the first section of the Anno song is a rare stylistic device that uses an acrostic: the first letters of the first seven verses to the section in which the history of salvation is finished, give the Middle High German term for " common knowledge ". This term is, so to speak, the clip that holds the unhandled salvation history. There will also be located in the Annolied one of the earliest evidence of the word " German ", the earliest as a collective term for the tribes of the Saxons, Bavarians and Franks.

Sources of Anno song

The Annolied poet has used a variety of sources. In addition to the Bible, these are, inter alia, Virgil's Aeneid, a Book of John Scotus, the Alexander Romance, the Rhenish- lotharingische Regionalhistoriographie that Hystoria Treverorum, the older Anno Vita and possibly the annals Lampert of Hersfeld. His sources, the poet linked to an elaborate composition, in which penetrate salvation and world history ( such as the coupling of the dream with Daniel origin Say German tribes, such as the Lower Rhine Troy myth and Roman history ). Here, the poet is characterized by considerable autonomy. Parts of the Anno song were included in the later Middle High German Kaiser Chronicle; the two works are often discussed together.