ORENDEL  , a See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle High See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German poem, of no See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• LITERARY

literary merit, dating from the See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close of the 12th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story is associated with the See also:

• TOWN

town of Treves (See also:

• TRIER (French Troves)

Trier), where the poem was probably written . The introduction narrates the story of the See also:

• HOLY

Holy Coat, which, after many adventures, is swallowed by a See also:

• WHALE

whale . It is recovered by Orendel, son of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King Eigel of Treves, who had embarked with twenty-two See also:

• SHIPS

ships in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to woo the lovely Brida, the See also:

• MISTRESS

mistress of the Holy See also:

• SEPULCHRE, CANONS REGULAR OF THE HOLY
• SEPULCHRE, EASTER
• SEPULCHRE, THE HOLY

Sepulchre, as his wife . Suffering shipwreck, he falls into the hands of the fisherman Eise, and in his service catches the whale that has swallowed the Holy Coat . The coat has the See also:

• PROPERTY

property of rendering the wearer See also:

• PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof against wounds, and Orendel successfully overcomes innumerable perils and eventually wins Brida for his wife . A See also:

• MESSAGE (a word occurring in slightly different forms in several languages, e.g. Fr. message, Span. mensaje, Ital. messagio; adapted from the Low Lat. missaticum, from mittere)

message brought by an See also:

• ANGEL

angel See also:

• SUMMONS (Fr. semonce, from semonner or semondre, Lat. summonere, summonitio)

summons both back to Treves, where Orendel meets with many adventures and at last disposes of the Holy Coat by placing it in a See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone See also:

• SARCOPHAGUS (Gr. vapsorg yos, literally " flesh-eating," from vapt, flesh, ¢ayeiv, to eat)

sarcophagus . Another angel announces both his and Brida's approaching See also:

• DEATH

death, when they renounce the See also:

• WORLD

world and prepare for the end . The poem exists in a single See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript of the 15th century, and in one See also:

• PRINT

print, dated 1512 . It has been edited by von der See also:

• HAGEN
• HAGEN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH VON DER (178o-1856)

Hagen (1844), L . See also:

• ETTMULLER, ERNST MORITZ LUDWIG (1802-1877)
• ETTMULLER, MICHAEL (1644-1683)

Ettmuller (1858) and A . E .

Berger (1888) ; there is a See also:

• MODERN

modern German See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation by K . See also:

• SIMROCK, KARL JOSEPH (1802-1876)

Simrock (1845) . See H . Harkensee, Untersuchungen fiber das Spielmannsgedicht Orendel (1879) ; F . See also:

• VOGT, KARL CHRISTOPH (1817-1895)

Vogt, in the Zeitschrift See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur deutsche Philologie, vol. xxii . (189o) ; R . Heinzel, Uber das Gedicht vom See also:

• KONIG, KARL RUDOLPH (1832-1901)

Konig Orendel (1892); and K . Mullenhoff, in Deutsche Altertumskunde, vol. i . (2nd ed., 189o), pp . 32 seq .