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| • Mr. Peter Dimringer von Staufenberg • Knight Ulrich, service man to landlord mountain • The Virdunger citizen • The swan ship on the Rhine • The good Gerhard swan • The swan rings to Plesse • Legend of Irminfried, Iring and Dieterich • Like Ludwig waiting castle ueberkommen1)  
Supporting "well medleys" are suggested
throughout:Machine-translated.
Mr. Peter Dimringer von StaufenbergIn the Ortenau nearby open castle lies Staufenberg, which master lock knight of Peter Dimringer, from which the legend reads: He was called a Pfingsttag early the farmhand the horse saddles and wanted of its celebrations towards nut brook to ride, daselbst Metten to hear. The boy rode in front, on the way at the entrance of the forest saw he on a stone a beautiful, rich-decorated virgin nut alone sitting; she greeted it, the farmhand rode past. Soon thereafter Mr. Peter came along, saw her with joys, greeted and addressed the virgin friendly. It bent it and said: "God thanks you your greeting." There grant Peter of horses, it offered to it its hands, and it main header it of stones up, with arms clasped it it; they sat down both into the grass and talked, which their will was. "beautiful Fraue, I may ask grace, what is appropriate for me to hearts, then it says to me, why you here so lonely sit and nobody is with you." - "say I to you, friend, on my loyalty: because I wanted to wait yours here; I love you, since you crossed for each horse; and everywhere in fight and in controversy, in way and on roads I you secretly gepfleget and guarded with my free hand that you never no wrong happened." There the knight answered tugendlich: "that I saw you, nothing Liebers could me happen, and my will would be, with you to be to to death." - "this may probably happen", spoke the virgin, "if you my teachings follows: If you want to love me, you may take none to for that conjugally woman, and would do du's nevertheless, your body the third day would die. Where you are however alone and desire mine, since you have me equal with you and lives lucky and in Wonne." Mr. Peter said: "woman, is true that everything?" And it gave it God to the defiency guarantee of the truth and loyalty. Whereupon it promised itself it too own, and both obligated itself to each other. The wedding should be held the Mrs. Bitte to Staufenberg; it gave it a beautiful ring, and after they had clasped themselves each other tugendlich fishing rod eight and, Mr. Peter of far away its road rode. In the Dorfe it heard a fair read and did its prayer, turned then home on its celebrations, and as soon as it was alone in the Kemenate, it thought with itself in the heart: If I had nevertheless now my dear bride here with me, whom I found outside on the stone! And like it had expressed the word, stood it already before its eyes, it kissed itself and was in joys together.Thus they lived one while, it gave it also money and property that it could live merrily in the world. Afterwards it drove out in country, and where it came, its wife was with it, whenever he her wished. Finally it turned again home into its homeland. There its brothers and friends fitted to it that it should take conjugally a woman; it frightened and sought it from to dissuade. They let add it however harder by a wise man, also from its kinship. Mr. Peter answered: "Eh wants I mine body in belts cut to let, as I marry myself." In the evening now, how he alone was, it already knew its wife, which they intended with it, and he assured from new his word to her. However damal the German king in Frankfurt should be selected to; there also the Staufenberger among much other service men and noblemen pulled. There he did so out in the knight play that he pulled the eyes of the king on itself and the king it offered finally his Muhme from Kaernten to the marriage. Mr. Peter came into violent grief and deflected the Erbieten; and because all princes talked into it and wanted the cause to know, he spoke last that he would have already a beautiful woman and from it all property, but over ihretwillen no different one to take might, otherwise he would have to lie dead within three day. There the bishop said: "gentleman, let me the woman see." There he spoke: "you can be seen before nobody before me." - "like that it is not a right woman", talked it all, "separates from the devil; and that you minnet the Teufelin more pure women, spoil your names and your honour before all world." Confused by these speeches the Staufenberger thus soon, he said wanted everything to do, what pleases the king, and was him the virgin got engaged under precious, royal gifts. The wedding should be held after Peter's will in the Ortenau. When it had its wife again first times with itself, it did to it pitiful reproaches that it would have crossed their prohibition and their promise nevertheless, then was now its recent life lost. "and to the indication I want to give you the following: If you mean foot will see and it all different one to see, women and men, on your wedding, then are but beichten you not seams, and to death prepare you." There however Peter thought of the pfaffen word that it wanted to beru-hit a corner him perhaps only with such threats and it lie would be vain. When now soon the recent bride was brought after Staufenberg, a large celebration was held and the knights to her over board opposite-sat, there one saw something pushing suddenly by the stage, a beautiful people foot to to the knees, white like ivory. The knight plaed and called: "pain, my friends, you have me spoil, and in three days am I death." The foot had again disappeared, without leaving a hole in the stage. Whistles, dancing and singing were appropriate down, for Pfaff were called, and after it had taken had gebeichtet its sins from its bride parting and, its heart broke. Its young wife went in the monastery and prayed to God for its soul, and into all German landing became the manful knights deplored. In the XVI. Century, after fish type certification, knew the people of the whole area still the history of Peter the Staufenberger and the beautiful sea-protects, how one called it at that time. The twelve-stone between Staufenberg is still now to see nut brook and Weilershofen where it had appeared to it that first times; and on the lock the room is shown, since sea-protect yourself is unterweilen to have stopped. Knight Ulrich, service man to landlord mountainA castle is appropriate for landlord mountain in swabia country, been called, on which before times count Hartmann, whose service man, knight Ulrich, met the following adventure, sat: When he pulled to hunt an On Fridays into the forest, but no game all day long to meet, erred knight Ulrich on unknown way could into a desert area, which his foot had not ever entered. Are not enough, then it against-ridden a knight and a Mrs., both came from noble appearance; he greeted it politely, but they were silent, without bending him; there it saw here-pulling the same people still more. Ulrich held all since in the Tann, until five hundred men and just as much women by-came, in mute, being silent gesture, to answer and without its greetings. Zuhinterst at the crowd drove a woman alone without man, answered to its greeting: "God vergelt's!" Knight Ulrich was glad to hear God call and began this woman to further-ask for the course, and which for people would be, who him their greeting would not have vergoennt. "leaving you verdriessen", said the Mrs., "we greet not, because we are dead people." - "like kommt's however that your mouth freshly and red stands?" - "that is only the light; before thirty years was my body already erstorben and decays, but the soul suffers agony." - "why you zoget alone, take me miracles, there I each woman including a knight driving nevertheless saw?" - "the knight, whom I am to have, that is not dead yet, and gladly I wanted to drive rather alone, if he did still penalty and repented his sin." - "as he is called with names?" - "it is mentioned by giving castle." - "I probably know, he main header me a child from the baptism; gladly I would like to carry to the back for it, what is met me here; but as it will believe the truth?" - "to the landmark this says to him: My man was expenditure-rode, there left I him into my house, and he kissed me on means mouth; there we became each other admit, and it pulled a rotguelden finger flax of its hand and gave mir's; God, my eyes wanted it would have never seen!" - "nothing may save your soul, prayers and wallfahrten?" - "all pfaffen tongues, which read and sang ever, cannot help me, therefore that I did not arrive at the Beichte and paid for before my death; I shrank from however the Beichte; because my biderben man something would be to ears comes of my Unzucht, it me the life would have cost."Knight Ulrich regarded this woman, while it told its deplorable history; at the body the Ungemach of their soul did not appear, but she was dressed probably-looking and plentiful. Ulrich wanted with it the other people into the lodging after-rides; and as it the woman not from this resolution to divert could do, recommended her him only to turn none of the meals to anzuruehren, which one would offer to him, also not to it as badly one seemed to take this. They rode together over wood and field, until the whole heap arrived before a beautifully built castle, where the women taken off, which the horses and sporen were taken to knights in receipt. Whereupon they two, knights and women each sat, together on the green grass; because no chairs were present; that miserable woman sat completely alone at the end, and nobody respected their. Goldne of containers were laid on, game and fish, the noblest meals, which one could devise, white roll and bread; To give and filled the cups went with cool of wines. There also these meals knight Ulrich was spoken, which anrochen him lovely; but it was in such a way points to affect nothing of it. It went sitting to the women and forgot themselves that it seized on the table and wanted a roasted fish to waive; there well it fast its finger viere as of hoellischem fire that he had to cry loud. No water and no wine could delete it this fire; the woman, who sat beside him, saw hangen a measurer at its page, reached fast for it, cut to him a cross over the hand and pushed the knife again in. When the blood flowed over the hand, the fire had to yield before it, and knight Ulrich got off that losses of the fingers. The woman spoke: "now a tournament will be raised and be demonstrated you a noble horse and spoken gold-fitted signs; against it guards you." Soon thereafter a farmhand with the Ross and sign came before the knight, and so gladly er's would have mounted, let er's neverthelessFUL drive. After the tournament sweet tones rang out, and the dance began; the miserable woman had again warned the knight of it. It however had to line up with and put themselves down; when it looked at knight Ulrich, it forgot everything, stepped in addition and offered to it the hand. It hardly affected it, when it down-sank for dead; fast it carried it sideways on a Rain, dug for it a herb and put it into its mouth, about which it revived again. There the woman spoke: "it approach the day, and when the cock crows, must hinnen we all of." Ulrich answered: "is it night? Me it seemed in such a way, as if it would have been the whole time bright day." She said: "the illusion deceives you; Will find a forest paste to her, on that to it at the exit from the wilderness to surely arrive can." A Zelter was demonstrated the poor woman, brann as a glow; as it had mounted it, it touched the sleeve back: there knight Ulrich saw the fire of its bare arm shooting, how if the flames strike around a burning house. It segnete it to the parting and came on dependent steige lucky the home to landlord mountain ridden, showed the count the burned hand and made themselves on to the castle, where its Gevatter sat. It revealed to that, what it its Buhlin entbieten left, including the landmark with the finger flax and the burned fingers. On this message from giving castle including knight the Ulrich prepared, drove over sea against the ungetauften heaths, which her so much damage, to which German house to the comfort, did, until the woman had been released from her agony. The Virdunger citizenTo Rudolfs of having castle times Virdung (Verdun) sat a citizen, purged into poverty in the city; and in order to arrive on the new at treasures, he promised with the help of one ages himself woman the devil. And as it had called itself off God and all himmlischen grace, filled it the Hoellenrabe the bag with Pfennigs, which became never all; because whenever it had spent the citizen, lay it again and again down. There its wealth great quantities much became; it acquired meadows and fields and lived after all Geluesten. A daily, since he sat merrily with his friends, two men on black horses came angeritten; the one pulled with the hand a saddled and gezaeumtes fire-black Ross, which he led to the citizen and it reminded that he should follow them, where he would have praised. Sadly the citizen parting took, mounted the Ross and separated with the messengers from dannen, in the face from more than fifty humans and two of its children, who complained deplorably and did not know, what from its father became. There they both went to an old woman, which knew many arts, and promised to it much money, if them would show them the right truth of their father. Whereupon the woman took the young men with itself into a forest and swore to the ground, until he opened himself and came out the two, with which their father had away-ridden. The woman asked whether they wanted to see their father. There the oldest was afraid; the younger however, which had male hearts, existed with its resolution. There the meisterin ordered to the hell messengers that they zurueckfuehreten the child intactly to its father and again. The two led it now into a beautiful house, there sat its father completely alone in the same dress and garb, in which it had separated, and one did not see a fire, which tormented him. The young man addressed it and asked: "father, as stands it around you, is gentle for you or pain?" The father answered: "because I could not bear the poverty, gave I around terrestrial property the devil body and soul there and all right, which had God at me; therefore, my son, does not keep anything from the property, which you inherited from me, otherwise you lost equal me." The son spoke: "as kommt's that one does not burn a fire at you siehet?" - "agitate me on with the point of your finger", shifted the father, "twitch however fast again away!" In the instant, where it did the son, it burned itself hand and arm to at the elbows; there only the fire diminished. Agitated of its father agonies, he spoke: ", does my father announce, does give it nothing in the world, you to help likes or possibly pious?" - "Sowenig of the devil advice will likes", said the father, "sowenig can my advice become; you however, my son, do in such a way with your property that your soul remains." Thus they separated. The two leaders brought the young man again out to the woman, who it showed the burned arm. Whereupon it told arms and realms, what had happened to it and how it stood around its father; everything of its property went and lived voluntarily poor in a monastery to to its end of life.The swan ship on the RhineIn the year 711 Dietrich, dukes to Kleve, only daughter Beatrix lived, her father had died, and she was woman over Kleve and much country more. This virgin sat at a time on the castle of Nimwegen, it was beautifully clearly weather, it looked into the Rhine and saw a thing there wunderlich. A white swan drove the river downward, and at the neck it had a goldne chain. On the chain a boat, which it away-pulled, hung in it a beautiful man sat. It had a goldnes sword in the hand, a hunting horn around itself to hang and a koestlichen ring on the finger. This young man stepped much word with the virgin from the ship flax to the country and had and said that he should to protect and their enemies drive their country out. This young man so probably behagte it that it dear-won and to the man took him. But it spoke to it: "never ask me for my sex and coming; because where you for it ask, you mine loosely to be and single and me never see." And it said it that it would be called Helias; it was large from body, equal to a giant. They had now several children with one another. After a time however, then this Helias lay at night beside its wife in bed, and the countess asked negligently and spoke: "should not want to say gentleman, you your children, where you originate?" over the word it left the woman, jumped into the swan ship in and continued, was also not again seen. The woman graemte herself and died from regret still the same year. However it is to have left the three pieces, sword, horn and ring to the children. Its descendants are still present, and in the lock to Kleve be located a high tower, on whose summit a swan turn, called the swan tower, for the memory of the occurence.The good Gerhard swanA daily stood king Karl at the window of a castle and saw outside on the Rhine. There he saw a swan on the water swims to come, to that had a silk strand around the neck, and to it a boat hung; in the boat a knight sat completely gewaffnet, at his neck had he a writing. And like the knight to the country, continued the swan came with that ships and was never more seen. Navilon (Nibelung), one of the king men, approached to the stranger, gave it the hand and led it before the king. There Karl asked for his name; but the knight could not talk, but showed him the writing; and the writing meant that Gerhard swan had come to serve it around a country and a woman. Navilon took up it on it the weapons off and main header it; but Karl gave it a good coat, and they went then to table. When however roll and saw the Neukoemmling, it asked, what it would be for a man. Karl answered: "God sent me this knight", and roll and spoke: "it seem heldenmuetig." The king instructed to probably serve it. Gerhard was a wise man, probably served the king and pleased everyone; fast he learned the language. The king became him much hold, vermaehlte him its sister Adalis (in the Danish one: Elisa) and set it to a duke over Ardennenland.The swan rings to PlesseThe Mr. von Schwanring pulled from a strange country into the area of Plesse and wanted to establish itself. In the year 892 they got feud with those from Beverstein; were their three brothers: Siegfried, victory-hard and Gottschalk of swan ring; and they led swan wings and ring in their Schilden. Bodo of Beverstein shot victory-hard with an arrow and fled before the revenge of the brothers to Finland, where he put himself down. And the other Beversteine put a firm castle on against the swan rings, been called to hard mountain or Beverstein. Gottschalk and Siegfried dealt however to put on a Gegenburg. A daily hunted they from Hoekelheim in the high forest (also the long forest or Plessenwald is called), and with them was mentioned their hybrid brother, Heiso swan wing, a good, cunning hunter, that probably experiences ways and bars in field and wood; that knew from the notices of the Hardenberger. This saw a good Plaetzchen at a corner against the line, pointed it to its brothers; those spoke: "Wohlan, well lain a Plaetzken! Here we want house, castle and celebrations build." Thus they built at the same marks; the house was called Plaetzken and gradually Plesse; finally the swan rings themselves accepted the name from Plesse. The controversy with the Hardenbergern was stood. The shepherds show still the place, where (between the villages meadow stone and Parnhosen), and adds that also daselbst stone a cross had confessed before times, the Schwanringer cross was victory-hard shot called.Legend of Irminfried, Iring and DieterichThe Franconia king Hugo (Chlodwig) did not leave legal inheriting except its daughter Amelberg, which was vermaehlt at Irminfried, king of Thuringia. Franconias however selected its illegitimate son Dieterich to the king; that sent an envoy to Irminfried around peace and friendship; also the same received it with all honours and was called it for a while at its Hofe remains. However the queen of Thuringia, which meant that you belonged the Franconia realm also to right and Dieterich their farmhand would be, appointed Iring, which advice of the king asked, to itself and it, their husband zuzureden that it would not like itself to let in with the Ambassador of a farmhand. This Iring was very strongly and courageously, intelligently and fine in all advice giving and diverted thus the king of the peace with Dieterich, to which the other advice had guessed/advised it. Therefore Irminfried laid on the envoy to answer its gentleman he might have acquired himself nevertheless rather the liberty as a realm trachten. On which the envoy shifted: "I wanted to have rather heard you my head to give than such words of you; I probably know that over derentwillen much blood of Franconias and Thueringer will flow."How Dieterich enrages this message heard, ward it, drew with strong armies to Thuringia and found the brother-in-law with Runibergun its wait. On the first and second day ward without decision fenced; on third however Irminfried lost the battle and fled with the remaining people into its city ski thing, been because of the river Unstrut. There Dieterich convened its army leaders. Under those Waldrich guessed/advised, after one buried the dead ones and the wounds tended to return home with remaining armies the not rich to continue the war. It had however the king a faithful, experienced farmhand, who gave other advice and said, steadfastness would be in noble things the most beautiful, as with the ancestors; one would not have to yield from the conquered country and let the defeated ones again arise, which could become dangerous by new connections otherwise, now however would be alone enclosed. - this advice pleased also the king best, and it let the Saxonia offer by envoys: if it it their old enemies, who would help to defeat Thueringer, then it wanted to lend their realm and country on eternal to them. The Saxonia without seams nine leaders, everyone sent with thousands men, whose strong bodies, stranger customs, weapons and dresses admired Franconias. They stored themselves however after noon too on the meadows at the river and stormed the following morning the city; on both sides with large bravery one argued, by the Thueringern for the native country, of the Saxonia for the acquisition of the country. In this emergency Irminfried sent the Iring to offer treasures and subjecting for the peace to the Franconia king. Dieterichs of advice, also gold won, guessed the more to the wanting driving, since those would become Saxonia very dangerous neighbours, if they installation-came Thuringia; and thus the king promised, morgenden daily its brother-in-law again to take up and the Saxonia off call. Iring remained in the camp of Franconias and sent to its gentleman a messenger, in order to calm the city down; it wanted to ensure that the night did not change the convicitions. Since now the citizens were again safe of the peace, one went with its sperber out searching it at the river bank fodder. It happened however that the bird, released, on which other side of the water flew and became imprisoned from a Saxonia. The Thueringer demanded it again, the Sachse refused it. The Thueringer: "I want to reveal to you somewhat, if you me the bird leaves, which associates to you and yours is very useful." The Sachse: "so legend, if you want to have, what you desire!" -, spoke the Thueringer "in such a way" knows, "the fact that the kings peace made and intends to catch and kill you tomorrow in the camp!" When it had seriously protested again now this the Saxonia and them the escape had recommended, then this released immediately the sperber and verkuendigte its companions, which he heard. How they were now all in confusion and doubt, seized from all honoured Greis, called Hathugast, its holy indication, which was a lion and a kite and over it flying an eagle picture, and spoke: "to here I lived under Saxonia and her never fleeing saw; so I cannot be forced still to do what I never learned. If I cannot live on, then it is me the dearest to fall with the friends; the exhausted comrades, who lie here, are me an example of the old virtue, since they rather gave their spirit up, when before the enemy yielded. Therefore let us heut at the night the safe city overwhelm." With the break-down of the night those penetrated Saxonia over the unguarded walls into the city, brought the adults to death and preserved only the children; Irminfried escaped with woman and children and less company. The battle happened on 1 October. The Saxonia from Franconias of the victory were praised, received friendly and with the whole country on eternally talented. Dieterich let the escaped king recall trueglich and talked finally the Iring over with wrong promises to kill its gentleman. When now Irminfried returned and thrashed themselves before Dieterich, then Iring stood and killed its own gentleman. Immediately the king from its eyes and from the realm referred it, when around the unnatural act all humans would have to be hated. There Iring shifted: "marriage I goes, wants I to mine gentleman to raechen", pulled the sword and firstoh the king Dieterich. Whereupon it put the body of its gentleman over that of the Dieterich, on that that, which would overcome living overcome, in death; way with the sword cleared and escaped. Irings fame is so large that the milk circle in the sky Iringsstrasse is designated after him [ 1 ] 1. Deviating representation of the legend with gold branch: Script rerum suevicarum, p. 1-3, where those take Swabia the place that Saxonia. Like Ludwig waiting castle ueberkommen1)When the bishop of Mainz Ludwigen, called, baptized Springer, talented it it with all country, which the pin was responsible, of the Hoersel to to the Werra. Ludwig however, after he came to his years, bauete waiting castle with iron oh, and one says, it came thus: On a time it rode to the mountains out hunts and followed piece for game after to to the Hoersel with Niedereisenach, on the mountain, since jetzo the waiting castle lies. There Ludwig waited for his Gesinde and servant shank. The mountain however probably pleased him, because it was firm stickel and; nevertheless raeumig above and broadly enough to build on it. Day and night trachtete he there as he would like to actually bring him, because he was not its and to the Mittelstein2) belonged, which the Mr. von Frankenstein held. It invented a ruse, collected people and left at one night earth of its reason in baskets on the mountain carry and it completely thereby beschuetten; pulled on it after beautiful castle, let a burgfrieden make and began to build by force on that mountain. The Mr. von Frankenstein sued it before the realm that it would undertake itself their freventlich and by force. Ludwig answered, it built on the Seine and belonged also to its and wanted received the right. There ward rightfully recognized: Where it can prove and receive with twelve respectable people to enjoy would have er's. And it got twelve knights and stepped with them on the mountain, and they took their swords off and put them into the earth (it had let which carry on it), swore that the count on the Seine builds, and the highest soil would have from age to the country and rule belongs. Thus the mountain remained to it, and the new castle designated it waiting castle, because it had waited its Gesindes on the place.
1. Similar legend of Konstantin and Byzanz. Cod. pal 361, fol. 83 b. |
