WigaloisThe entertaining history of the noble knight Wigalois first appeared on the market in 1493 as a prose version of a late mediaeval courtly epic. In contrast to the model, the author of the chapbook version made characteristic changes to the chivalric and courtly themes of his model. Above all the function of the hero and the meaning of his adventures undergo a noticeable change: for the Wigalois of the epic, his love for the beleaguered Queen Larie may have been the stimulus and motive for his fight for freedom at the risk of his life, but the chapbook understands the hero’s task in purely moralistic terms as a trial by combat, a fight between good and evil. This reprint of the 1519 edition is based on the first printed edition, which survives in only one copy. | |
| Monograph | |
| Wigalois | |
| 1973 | |
| Olms | |
| Hildesheim [u.a.] | |
| PPN519743180 | |
| 124 | |
| Germanistik/Neuzeit Humanismus & Renaissance Volkskunde/Sage,_Mythologie | |
| http://www.olmsonline.de/purl?PPN519743180 | |
