Dear Sophie!
In my opinion, your text is from the middle high german "Die heilige
Elisabeth", a legend of a few 1000 verses, written about in 1300.
UNfortunately, I haven't the edition at hand. I hope this helps you.
Regards,
Tobias Kemper
> Try the biography of St Elizabeth by Montalembert (but this may have been
> your source?), which is full of all kinds of citations and information, and
> Analecta hymnica medii aevi, which includes the texts of many Latin offices
> and hymns to St Elizabeth. Your Middle German text might be a translation.
> Sincerely,
> Barbara Haggh-Huglo
> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:17:17 +0100 (BST) Sophie Oosterwijk
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Dear listmembers,
> >
> > I temporarily re-emerge from e-mail limbo to ask if anyone can help
> > me with the Middle-German extract below about St Elizabeth of
> > Thuringia (Hungary), which I found unreferenced in a book from the
> > early 1900s:
> >
> > Si hiz ir balde machen
> > Nach fruntlichen sachen
> > Von silber lodec wize
> > Mit druwelichen flize
> > Deme Kinde ein zuberlin,
> > So ez wehes Kunde sin,
> > Da man iz inne mohte
> > Baden wan iz dohte.
> > Si hiz ouch balde bigen
> > Von silber eine wigen
> > In wunderlicher gunste
> > Nach meisterlicher kunste,
> > Da man daz Kint in legete,
> > So iz die amme degete
> > Unde mit der spune neme war.
> > (etc.)
> >
> > If anyone could point me to the source, it would save me a lot of
> > trouble and I should be extremely grateful.
> >
> > Sophie Oosterwijk
> > Dept of the History of Art
> > University of Leicester
> > e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > P.S. Although George told me it's OK, it still feels terribly
> > impolite to me to barge in out of limbo with questions like this (for
> > I shall have another one soon). My apologies!
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