Der Busant
The Busant, also called the The buzzard is a narrative poem in Middle High German rhyming couplets 1,074. They probably originated in the 14th century from motives of French courtly literature.
Content
The Princess of France is engaged as a result of political of her unwanted marriage with the King of Morocco. To save them, the Prince of England in disguise, sneaks into her castle and it flees with the princess. While she sleeps in a forest, the Prince admired two of their rings until a buzzard flies and cause one of these rings steals. The Prince follows the bird, but gets lost in the forest and soon loses grief and despair of his mind.
For one year now, the Prince dwells like a wild man in the woods. Meanwhile the princess has found refuge in a mill, earning their bread with sewing while she waits for his return. Unrecognized, it will be included later by the uncle of the prince, a duke, and his wife. One day the Duke goes on the hunt and catch the feral prince. He takes him to his castle and tried during the next six weeks to take care of him.
When the Prince wants to prove his noble lineage and upbringing during a hunt, he catches a buzzard and bites him, to everyone's amazement head off. In order to justify his actions, he tells his story, and so is the princess finally able to recognize him. Thereafter, the two live happily and in peace.
Topic
Central to the story is the subject of the buzzard, who swoops down from the sky to the lady to steal her ring, which in turn brings her knight to drag out to retrieve the jewelry. The lovers are separated by a period of time, and the knight is given the opportunity to adventures and great deeds before both be reunited. This subject can also be found in today's literature, for example in Peter Bichsel's novel The Busant (1998), which takes up the motives of medieval template. The motif of verwildernden nobleman, as evidenced in the transformation of the Prince, is also an old: it goes back to stories of the eleventh and twelfth century, with figures such as Merlin, Tristan and Reinoldus also learn which such a temporary transformation.
In the literature of the Middle Ages treated " The Busant " same topic with Jean L' Renarts Escoulfe, a somewhat older courtly novel by 1,902 lines, in which another bird of prey, a Milan takes on the role of the predator. Paul Meyer believed that both plants are descended from a common source, which need to find it yet; According to Sandra Linden, relying on Rosenfeld and Reinhold Köhler, this is an original French text. In a review from 1937, however, Philip Augustus Becker concludes that no such source exists, and Renart the subject has invented.
Handwriting and Genre
The poem is completely preserved in a contemporary manuscript. In addition, there are three other fragments. Sandra Linden dated the work to the early 14th century.
" The Busant " is considered romantic similar example of the Mare, which contains typically 150-2000 lines and deals with mundane issues like love. " The Busant " also draws on the French tradition of Fine Magalona, but also shows similarities with the work of Konrad von Würzburg and the Iwein.
Cultural impact
To the poem numerous depictions were created, including a long tapestry its fragments now preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Applied Art in Cologne, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg, as well as in Paris be. The piece of the Metropolitan Museum shows the Prince of England as a wild man, while the princess is on her palfrey riding refuge with a poor man. According to Jennifer Floyd points out the existence of such tapestries to a bourgeois market for wall hangings and tapestries that show, among other hunting scenes; Such wall decoration was not only reserved for the nobility, but also for rich merchants and the gentry affordable.
John Twyning writes that the plot of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which four lovers lost in the woods, was intended as a spoof of the " Busant ".