[Bards] jester
Jay Rudin
rudin at ev1.net
Mon Jun 25 10:10:10 PDT 2007
Willow wrote:
> While looking for information I found this thing of interest. Do any
> of you know anything about this jester?
> Eulenspiegel, Till
Very little. He's a legendary trickster, although some claim he existed,
and a headstone, allegedly his, exists. The first known stories about him
appear to be from the early 1500s, and it was then that the grave was
discovered. Like most such legends, there are lots of stories and very
little documentation. His name can be made to mean "Owl-mirror" in High
German, but something else extremely crude in Low German. (The first book
about him was written in the High German of the time, but there are enough
puns that don't work in High German that it's believed that the stories
were originally written in Low German.)
But that's pretty much all I know about him.
Here's a partial preview of an English translation of the Till Eulenspiegel
stories:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zlJJ6l3mbPIC&dq=till+eulenspiegel&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=qTRiKZfb4W&sig=Fg-MvMCOwzsaZC8O2Svb7xpz8Ek#PPA11,M1
Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
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