Von Island bis an Rhein und Donau: über die Darstellung von Hochsee- und Binnenschifffahrt im Nibelungenlied

Abstract: Descriptions of ocean and inland navigation play a role in structuring the text of the Nibelungenlied. On the one hand, in a manner serving to guide the reader, over long stretches of the narration they provide anticipatory and retrospective references and create constitutive preconditions for phases of the plot. On the other hand, they characterize and codify important persons by means of direct nautical roles and functions. This also occurs within the framework of a possible juxtaposition with coeval writing on the part of both the author and reader, in which context ecclesiological symbolism may play an important role as a mode of contrast. Moreover, through the literary references to foreign - but to some extent real - places, the knowledge and conception of geography and oceanography of the time of the work's writing was treated in a complex and varied manner, also including allusions to the contemporary, i.e. Hohenstaufen, political and mental outlook. Caused in part by the v

Angaben zum Objekt

• Weitere Titel: From Iceland to the Rhine and the Danube: The Representation of Ocean and Inland Shipping in the Nibelungenlied
• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Anmerkungen: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 34 (2011) ; 407-449

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Deutsche Literatur
• Schlagwort: Burgunder ; Epos ; Donau ; Rhein ; Worms ; Friedeburg-Etzel

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
• (wann): 2011
• Urheber: Haas, Jochen

Weitere Informationen

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-65990-1
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:56 MEZ