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RUODLIEB

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUODLIEB , a See also:

romance in Latin See also:verse by an unknown See also:German poet who flourished about Io3o;. he was almost certainly a See also:monk of the Bavarian See also:abbey of See also:Tegernsee. The poem is one of the earliest German romances of knightly See also:adventure, and its vivid picture of feudal See also:manners gives it a certain value as an See also:historical document. The poet was probably an See also:eye-See also:witness of the See also:episode (ll. 4231-5221) which represents the See also:meeting of the See also:emperor See also:Henry II. with See also:Robert of See also:France on the See also:banks of the See also:Maas in 1023. Ruodlieb was See also:left unfinished, and further-more the MS. was cut up and used for binding books, so that the fragments were only gradually discovered (from 1807 onwards) and pieced together. The framework of the See also:story is borrowed from a popular m¢rchen of the youth who takes service away from See also:home, and is paid in See also:wise saws instead of current See also:coin. He receives at the same See also:time a See also:loaf, with instructions not to cut it until he is once more at home. This contains the coins. The See also:proverbs, usually three in number, were increased in Ruodlieb to twelve, each of which was the starting-point of an episode by which the See also:hero was made to appreciate its value. For examples of the three-See also:proverb See also:tale see W. Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories (See also:Penzance, 2nd See also:series, 1873) ; See also:Cuthbert See also:Bede, The See also:White Wife... (See also:London, 1868) ; K.

V. K.[illinger], See also:

Erin (See also:Stuttgart and See also:Tubingen, 1849), and others in the See also:French romance of the See also:Saint Graal, in the Gesta Romanorum (the three proverbs bought by See also:Domitian) and the old French Dit See also:des trois pommes. The best edition of Ruodlieb is by F. Seiler (See also:Halle, 1882). There is a See also:modern version by M. See also:Heine (See also:Leipzig, 1897), and a full See also:analysis of the contents is given by R. Koegel, Gesch. d. deutschen Lit. bis zum Ausgange des Mittelalters (See also:Strassburg, 1894-97, H. pp. 342-412).

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