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ORTNIT, or OTNIT

ORTNIT, or OTNIT , See also:

German See also:

hero of See also:

ROMANCE

romance, was originally Hertnit or Hartnit, the See also:

elder of two See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers known as the Hartungs, who correspond in German See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology to the Dioscuri. His seat was at Holmgard (See also:

Novgorod), according to the Thidrekssaga (See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter 45), and he was related to the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

SAGA (literally a story committed to writing)

saga heroes. Later on his See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Holmgard became See also:

GARDA, LAKE OF (the Lacus Benacus of the Romans)

Garda, and in See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary German See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend he ruled in See also:

LOMBARDY

Lombardy. Hartnit won his See also:

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride, a Valkyrie, by hard fighting against the See also:

GIANT (O.E. geant, through Fr. giant, O.Fr. gaiant, jaiant, jeant, med. pop. Lat. gagante—cf. Ital. gigante—by assimilation from gigantem, ace. of Lat. gigas, Gr. yiyas)

giant Isungs, but was killed in a later fight by a See also:

DRAGON (Fr. dragon, through Lat. draco, from the Greek; connected with SEpeoµay " see," and interpreted as " sharp-sighted "; O.H. Ger. tracho, dracho, M.H.G. trache, Mod. Ger. Drachen; A.S. draca, hence the equivalent English form " drake," " fire-drake,

dragon. His younger See also:

BROTHER

brother, Hardheri (replaced in later German legend by See also:

WOLFDIETRICH

Wolfdietrich), avenged Ortnit by killing the dragon, and then married his brother's widow. Ortnit's wooing was corrupted by the popular See also:

INTEREST

interest in the See also:

CRUSADES

crusades to an See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental Brautfahrtsaga, bearing a very See also:

close resemblance to the See also:

French romance of Huon of See also:

BORDEAUX

Bordeaux. Both heroes receive similar assistance from Alberich (See also:

OBERON (Fr. Alberon, Auberon, Ger. Alberich, i.e. rich, Goth. reiks, " ruler "—cf. Lat. rex—and O.H. and M.H. Ger. pl. elbi, elbe, " elves," pl. alp)

Oberon), who supplanted the Russian Ilya as Ortnit's epic See also:

FATHER

father in See also:

MIDDLE

middle lligh German romance. See also:

Neumann maintained that the Russian Ortnit and the Lombard See also:

king were originally two different persons, and that the incoherence of the See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale is due to the See also:

WELDING (i.e. the action of the verb " to weld," the same word as " to well," to boil or spring up, the history of the word being to boil, to heat to a high degree, to beat heated iron; according to Skeat, who points out that in Swedish the compound verb

welding of the two legends into one. See See also:

EDITIONS

editions of the See also:

HELDENBUCH, DAS

Heldenbuch and one of Ortnit and Wolfdietrich by Dr. J. L. Edlen von Lindhausen (See also:

TUBINGEN

Tubingen, 1906) ; articles in the Zeitschrift fiir deutsches Altertum by K.

Mullenhoff (xii. pp. 344-354, 1865; xiii. pp. 185-192, 1867), by J. Seemuller (See also:

XXVI

xxvi. 201-211, 1882), and by E. H. See also:

Meyer (xxxviii. pp. 85-87, 1894), and in Germania by F. Neumann (vol. See also:

XXVII

xxvii. pp. 191-219, See also:

Vienna, 1882). See also the literature dealing with Huon of Bordeaux.

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