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Gregorius: A Medieval Oedipus Legend

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Translated by Edwin H. Zeydel and Bayard Quincy Morgan. Originally published in 1955, this rendering in rhyming couplets was the first English translation to appear of the medieval Oedipus legend of Gregorius, made known to readers by Thomas Mann in his novel 'The Holy Sinner' (1951). The introduction situates Hartmann's poem in the pantheon of Gregorius legends by writers from Sophocles to Mann.

Author(s): Hartmann von Aue, Edwin H. Zeydel, Bayard Quincy Morgan (transl.)
Series: University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 14
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Year: 1955

Language: English
Pages: 156
City: Chapel Hill

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
PREFACE
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Legend of Gregorius in Literature
2. Related Legends
3. Oedipus and Gregorius
4. Thomas Mann and Gregorius
5. Hartmann von Aue, his Life and Works
Text
1. Prolog
2. The Parents of Gregorius and their Sin
3. The Secret Birth and Exposure of Gregorius
4. The Miraculous Rescue of the Child and its Education in a Convent
5. The Knightly Spirit of Gregorius and his Departure from the Convent
6. Gregorius' Prowess as a Knight and his Marriage to his Mother
7. The Recognition and Separation
8. Gregorius' Seventeen Years of Penance on the Lonely Rock
9. The Release of the Penitent and his Elevation to the Papacy
10. The Mother's Absolution and Reunion with her Son
11. Epilog
Notes