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ORENDEL , a See also:Middle High See also:German poem, of no See also:great See also:literary merit, dating from the See also:close of the 12th See also:century. The See also:story is associated with the See also:town of Treves (See also:Trier), where the poem was probably written. The introduction narrates the story of the See also:Holy Coat, which, after many adventures, is swallowed by a See also:whale. It is recovered by Orendel, son of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Eigel of Treves, who had embarked with twenty-two See also:ships in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to woo the lovely Brida, the See also:mistress of the Holy See also:Sepulchre, as his wife. Suffering shipwreck, he falls into the hands of the fisherman Eise, and in his service catches the whale that has swallowed the Holy Coat. The coat has the See also:property of rendering the wearer See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof against wounds, and Orendel successfully overcomes innumerable perils and eventually wins Brida for his wife. A See also:message brought by an See also:angel See also:summons both back to Treves, where Orendel meets with many adventures and at last disposes of the Holy Coat by placing it in a See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone See also:sarcophagus. Another angel announces both his and Brida's approaching See also:death, when they renounce the See also:world and prepare for the end.
The poem exists in a single See also:manuscript of the 15th century, and in one See also:print, dated 1512. It has been edited by von der See also:Hagen (1844), L. See also:Ettmuller (1858) and A. E. Berger (1888) ; there is a See also:modern German See also:translation by K. See also:Simrock (1845). See H. Harkensee, Untersuchungen fiber das Spielmannsgedicht Orendel (1879) ; F. See also:Vogt, in the Zeitschrift See also:fur deutsche Philologie, vol. xxii. (189o) ; R. Heinzel, Uber das Gedicht vom See also:Konig Orendel (1892); and K. Mullenhoff, in Deutsche Altertumskunde, vol. i. (2nd ed., 189o), pp. 32 seq.
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