Dietrich and Fasold. Woodcut from the printed Eckenlied by von Hans Schaur, Augsburg, 1491. Fol. 70v. Staatsbubliothek zu Berlin Inc. 321 8°
Das Eckenlied or Ecken Ausfahrt (The Song of Ecke or Ecke's Quest) is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German poem about the legendary hero Dietrich von Bern, the counterpart of the historical Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great in Germanic heroic legend. It is one of the so-called fantastical (aventiurehaft) Dietrich poems, so called because it more closely resembles a courtly romance than a heroic epic.
The Eckenlied tells the story of Dietrich's fight against the giant Ecke, who has been sent out by three queens to fetch Dietrich. Dietrich is forced to kill Ecke, after which he must fight Ecke's family, particularly Ecke's treacherous and vengeful brother Fasold. The poem exists in at least three separate but closely related versions, which offer different endings to the tale. A fragmentary text known as Dietrich und Fasold may represent another version of the Eckenlied, but differences in meter and content make this uncertain. Fasold and the three queens may have originally been figures of Tyrolean folklore, while Ecke may have been invented to explain the name of Dietrich's sword, Eckesachs (sharp sword).
The Eckenlied is the earliest poem about Dietrich attested (c. 1230) after his appearance in the Nibelungenlied.[1] It was one of the most popular narratives about Dietrich throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. It was first printed in 1490 and continued to be printed until the end of the 1500s.
Das Eckenlied or Ecken Ausfahrt (The Song of Ecke or Ecke's Quest) is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German poem about the legendary hero Dietrich...
who appears in the following works: The Middle High German heroic poem Eckenlied (c. 1230). The Old Norse compendium of German legends known as the Thidrekssaga...
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the Eckenlied. It is likely that this version of 44 stanzas has been deliberately shortened to serve as an introduction or prologue to the Eckenlied, which...
afterwards, with the earliest attested being the fantastical poem the Eckenlied (c. 1230). The oral tradition continued alongside this written tradition...
beginning to a story appears in CB 203a which is unique to Tirol called the Eckenlied about the mythic hero Dietrich von Bern. It is less clear how the Carmina...
(1981). Histologi. Munksgaard. p. 105. ISBN 978-87-16-08418-7. von der Ecken J, Müller M, Lehman W, Manstein DJ, Penczek PA, Raunser S (May 2015). "Structure...
etymology; Plassmann (1961) connects the name with a giant Ecke or Ekka of the Eckenlied, a medieval poem of the Theoderic cycle. Bahlow (1962, 1965) connects...
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Waldere fragment. The earliest attested of the "fantastical" epics is the Eckenlied, of which a single stanza is contained in the Codex Buranus (c. 1230)...
"Jacqueline Diffring Foundation". Retrieved 14 July 2014. Eine Hundertjährige mit Ecken und Kanten "Jacqueline Diffring Foundation". 6 October 2020. Foundation...
Die Welt (in German). Berlin. 16 June 2006. Retrieved 5 August 2020. "Mit Ecken und Kanten". Der Spiegel (in German). Hamburg. 15 November 2006. Retrieved...
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from the location of two of the fragments, and preserves parts of the Eckenlied (E3), Virginal (V3), Ortnit (C) and Wolfdietrich (C), though the fragments...
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