Orendel

The Orendel is a medium sized German epic poem in Central Franconian language. He emerged at the end of the 12th century, is only obtained in much younger edits. There was a handwritten version of 1477 (1870 in Strasbourg burned) as well as a print version and a printed prose version, both Augsburg editions from the year 1512.

In the minstrel seal, which is a mixture of hagiography and knights adventure, a bride advertising and abduction story is told, in which the legend of the gray rock of Christ, which protects its wearer Orendel in battle, is interwoven. The late antique novel about Apollonius of Tyre was used as a plot structure for the Orendel. The poem should probably encourage the pilgrimage to the Holy Robe in Trier.

Content

Orendel, the son of the king of Trier, Bride to marry the Queen of Jerusalem. His fleet is sinking due to a collision with an iceberg and he lives alone. In the belly of a whale he finds a gray skirt, which later gives it its name. Once back from the belly of the whale, he meets Bride, they marry, and Orendel is Lord over Jerusalem.

Karl Joseph Simrock in 1845 a high German translation under the title " The unsewn rock of Christ or King Orendel " out.

Expenditure

• Orendel, facsimile edition of the verse and the prose version by the printing of 1512, edited and with a foreword provided by Ludwig Denecke, ( = collection Metzler; band 111 ), Stuttgart 1972
• Walter Johannes Schröder (ed.): St. Oswald, Orendel, Salman and Morolf, ( = Spielmannsepen, Volume 2 ), Darmstadt 1976