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Waldere. Benjamin Hawkins Carroll Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1948 Waldere. Benjamin Hawkins Carroll Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Carroll, Benjamin Hawkins, "Waldere." (1948). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 7925. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/7925 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MANUSCRIPT THESES Unpublished theses submitted for the master’s and doctor’s degrees and deposited in the Louisiana State University Library are available for inspection. Use of any thesis is limited by the rights of the author* Bibliographical references may be noted, but passages may not be copied unless the author has given permission# Credit must be given in subsequent written or published work# A library which borrows this thesis for use by its clientele is expected to make sure that the borrower is aware of the above restrictions. LOUISIANA. STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 1 1 9 -5. WALBERE A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of English by Benjamin Hawkins Carroll, Jr. B.A., Louisiana State University, 1935 M.A., Louisiana State University, 1939 May, 1948 UMI Number: DP69303 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. UMI Dissertation Publishing UMI DP69303 Published by ProQuest LLC (2015). Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. 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Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 S117C6 ZO ACKKOWLEDGMKT To Professor H« B# Woolf, my director, to Professors T* A* Kirby, H* M« Caffee, and W* A* Bead, and to Mrs* Harold Dyson, of the Hill Memorial Library, I eta particularly grateful for their kindly offices during the writing of this thesis* TABLE OF CONTENTS I* INTRODUCTION X* Problems tea: a flaldere study E* The literary context: survey of the Walther legend 3* The context expanded: survey of the dimming legend 4* The context expanded: Vittga as modeled on WaXther 5* ftaldere in the expanded context: Fragment XW 6, &aldere in the expanded context: Fragment H XI* TBS WALDSHS TEXT XXX* NOTES IV, GLOSSARY V* BIBLIOGRAPHY VI, APPENDICES A* Genealogy of the Walther legend B* Vl?2ga*s First Adventure ill LIST GF ABBHEVI AT IQNS AtdA Aazeigar fto deutsches Alter turn Archly Arc 111 v f&r daa Stadium der neueren Sprachen uad U t c r a t u m BB Bonner Beitrgge ztir Anglistik Bartelsen H* Bertelsen'e ftidTeks Saga af Bern (2 volumes, Copenhagen* 1905—1911V B-T Joseph Bos war tli’s An An^lo-Saxon Dictionary* edited and enlarged by *2+ N. Toller (Oxford* 1898) B-T Supplement T. K* Toller* s An Angglo-Seacon Dictionary: Supplement (Oxford, 1921) DL Deutsche Literaturzeltung BSt Bmgjjsche Studlen GHM German!sch—Romanische Monatsschrift Halle Beitr&ge Beitrfee zur Geachiehte der Aeutschen Spraohe uad Lit era tor JSGPh Journal of Kngllgh and Germanic Philology 1*1 tera turblatt Literaturblatt f&r geirasnische und r omani sche Philologle mg Modern Language Kotes MLR Modern Language Review Modern mioXogy H£LA Publication of the Modern Language AsBOoiation WSB Sltzaafibarlohte der Philoaophi ach—Historisohen Olasse der Kaiserllchen Akademie der fflssensohaften (Vienna) ZfdA Zeltschrlft fiir deutsohes Altertum ZfdB Zeitschrlft ftir deutsche Bildung ZfdPh Zeitschrift fiir deutsche Phllologle iv A R 3TK A G T !Sbo ain of this thesis Is to offor an interpretation «Bd edition of tk« 014 fiBgUst Waldere f ^ & c s t s in which an account is takes ef all t e e m versions of and allusions to the Gaither etary «»4 of olasrl; related literature* 33te principal independent contribution of the study Is its demonstr&tion that the story of Vita's first adventure, preserved la the Old Horse Thltfajkasaga, is in considerable part derivative from the Gaither story and suggests a reconstruction for the teiaare narrative Into which the extant fragments fit d th complete propriety* iaoikg the Gaither legends apart from the story of Vi<2ga, s « i ^ * is o&ique in that the hero is shown in possession of tee named sword Miming, tee most famous of weapons in medieval Germanic literature and one aanil welly of high significance in the %aldere narrative* In other literature in which the sword figures, Morning is characteristically viewed as the most excellent of swards* In several Instances its role is that of tee second and superior of two blades wielded by a hero to whom it brings ultimate victory* Such Is the pattern of action in V i l p ’s first adventure, which besides dimming, has other elements in common with members of the group of Gaither legends, particularly its role of the liegemen torn between loyal ties to lord and friend respectively* Collation of the Vlttfea story site that of Ihl&rik's Journey home, a portion of Thtdrlkssage which has long been accepted as modeled largely upon a balthor*»lay, shows the two to have shared a ocrayon model, and v QQ^aritcn at the story with a shorter hut almost Identical account at Heimir (also to toidrikesa^a) , to which however all elements aiggtslite at too ^either legend are missing, eet&bllshe© the Gaither** toy influence o& too Fid&a tale* Fear interpretation or the ftaldere fragments, the two moat important questions are those a© to the identity of the speaker opening Fragment X® (cosipristog two speeches9 the second of them by Waldsre) and a© to the proper order of the two non—contlguous leaves of text* toe crux to each case is the nature of the ©word action* Aside from the Latin poem Waltharius* the VilS&a story 1© the only member of the ftalther group which has a detailed account of the sword set!on and which Is likely to preserve an action, approx­ imating that of the original ft either story* In the ¥£3g& tale and several other blaming legends a m allusions, dimming la conceived as the parsgo& of swords* Accord ingly, when the X-apeaker of teldure claims to have is possessions though it is idle and hidden away, the best of swords, then describes a sward which is oosocluted with toeodaric and the totter*© battlb-caeapanion ftldia (the Old Horse FiS^gu) v familiar from numerous source© as o*»n©r of dimming, only Mimadng is likely to be intended* From Fragment H (a speech by general eminent ascribed to Hildegyd) »aiders is known to use that award* Since ftaldare, however, cannot plausibly be the X—speaker (a speech of his Immediately follows), X must be the other member of 6eldere*e faotlon, 1* a*, HlldegyF* The Tldfea story and ftalthariue both know the hero as having to resort to a second sword at the climax of the fighting, and within %aldcre there are hint© of a similar pattern* Line© in vi I c! * * e Mi I ▼11 € % e i I 4# 11•5 1 . 3 i 3 I 1 S i i s the the ViUga st«| aad when It 1© one of alternate ewcrde e > I f n ' g I a s i I f § co ? R r 3& I w a ft I o' »■* H * a % * i & * 0 04 0 t* !* * g a ft ? a 1I 8# i o $ § n 4 I * I o* 5 «♦ :5F **s ft 3 8 «« © © n P* H i I H E& © 0 «► * ** % £ w I«* ic* i ! ^ « I • t asr z lift lines, ar« to substance parts o£ three speeehee delivered at or about the e l t o e U e point of the action* Beginning; with IU Mllenhoff s to 1860, the more usual view has been that only the four main characters reotln on the eeene, all other— probe bly eleven in auxaber— haviu& been Jellied by the warrior**hero* The loaves have by c o s m consent been designated I and IX (occasionally A and B), but since the ordering of leaves Is a act ter of conjecture, the numeral designations have been used ilth opposite applications* As being lees ambiguous, the designa­ tions H and XU d l l be used to this study, li for the fragment comprised almost wholly of a speech ascribed to HUdegytf (except by Heinz©!, who thinks rather or Bag***4}, XX far that containing the end of a speech variously a » i p « d to Gudhere, Hagena, t. aid ere, and Bil&eg^rf and the beginning of a speech known to be Waldere's from the explicit directive expression introducing It* Most editors and eoosaentators have said relatively little of the language of the fragments, but an adequate critical summary toe been offered by Borman,5 too points out favrde* B 1, avllan. xw 25, ^aeype (edwltaoype. H Id), geXlfeff. XW 27, fqgrblgan, H 26, and swur&e* H SB, as exhibiting late West Saxon peculiarities, hworfeiu H 30 (to which, Bobble points out,5 should be added wore* E £), hafa.
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