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1852 hat G.H.F. Scholl die bisher einzige Gesamtausgabe des mittelhochdeutschen Artusromans »Die Krone« (Diu crône) von ca. 30.000 Versen in Lachmannscher Manier veranstaltet (Nachdruck 1966, vergriffen). Hier wird erstmals eine kritische Edition nach dem Leithandschriftenprinzip vorgelegt, jedoch mit Beschränkung auf die in der Wiener Handschrift Nr. 2779 fortlaufend überlieferte erste (kleinere) Hälfte (die Verse 1 bis 12281). Das einzig vertretbare Editionsprinzip ließ kaum eine andere Lösung als den Wechsel der Leithandschrift in der Mitte des Werkes zu, da der Wiener Codex (V) trotz aller Flüchtigkeitsfehler den bei weitem originalgetreueren Text bietet, andererseits eine Rückübersetzung des großteils nur in der weit jüngeren südrheinfränkischen Heidelberger Handschrift (P) cpg 374 (einer frühneuhochdeutschen Redaktion der älteren, im Original verlorenen Dichtung) erhaltenen zweiten Teils in die mittelbairische Sprache von V mehr als problematisch wäre. Die Leithandschrift V der ersten Hälfte steht dem Original nicht nur zeitlich (um mindestens 150 Jahre), sondern auch geographisch beträchtlich näher. Da sie überdies (fast) durchgehend an einer zweiten, in Ausnahmen (für 517 Verse) sogar an einer dritten Parallelüberlieferung überprüft werden kann, vermittelt der so gewonnene Text immerhin schon eine gewisse Ahnung vom - natürlich immer noch unerreichbaren - Original. Da jedoch an unzähligen Stellen die Parallelhandschriften möglicherweise den ursprünglichen Text bieten, werden ihre Lesarten im Paralleldruck geboten. Der textkritische Kommentar unter dem Text enthält die älteren Vorschläge zur Textherstellung sowie eine Rechtfertigung der eigenen Vorschläge mit Hinweisen auf Wörterbücher, Grammatiken, Parallelstellen, insbesondere aus der »Krone« selbst. The longest German Arthurian romance in verse form (dating from approx. 1230) is edited here for the first time in accordance with the Master Manuscript method up to the point where the body of coherent ongoing text in the manuscript providing the truest reflection of the original (Cod. Vind. 2779) breaks off, i.e. as far as Verse 12281. As such it replaces at least in part the old, inadequate and out-of-print edition from the year 1852. Passages from the other manuscripts are printed parallel to the master text. A text-critical commentary below the text records former suggestions for the reconstruction of the text alongside reasoned justifications for the proposals advanced by the present editors.

Arthurian romances. --- Gawain (Legendary character) --- Romances, German. --- German literature --- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. --- Romances --- German romances

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Iwein, or The Knight with the Lion, is a free Middle High German adaptation of Chrťien de Troyes' Old French Arthurian romance, Yvain. Written c.1200 by a Swabian knight, Hartmann von Aue, Iwein charts the development towards maturity of a young knight who falls into error, neglecting his hard-won wife by devoting himself excessively to chivalric pursuits. This parallel-text edition, offering the first English translation, is based on one of the two earliest complete manuscripts, Giessen, University Library, no. 97 (Iwein B), dating from the second quarter of the thirteenth century. It contains a large number of lines, particularly in the later stages of the poem, which are not present in the other early manuscript, A (Heidelberg, cpg 397).

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Wigamur is an anonymously-authored, thirteenth-century Middle High German romance about a king's son who is lost to his parents in infancy. The eponymous hero, after being carried off in childhood by a mermaid, rescues an eagle which becomes his constant companion; in subsequent adventures he also rescues a maiden, becomes a Knight of the Round Table, and finally confronts a knight who of course proves to be his father, from whom he inherits a kingdom. The romance is perhaps the most most fully realized example of the Fair Unknown, or Bel Inconnu, motif in both the German and larger European Arthurian traditions.
Owng in part to the lack of an English translation, unlike other contemporary German romances, Wigamur has been comparatively little studied. This volume aimsto fill this need. It presents an edition of the text ( based on the only complete manuscript, Wolffenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 51.2. Aug. 4 (W), dating from the last half of thefifteenth century), accompanied by facing translation, notes, and introduction.

Joseph M. Sullivan is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Oklahoma.

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