The verbal and physical confrontation between father and son in the Germanic world

Authors

  • Maria Grazia Cammarota Università degli studi di Bergamo

Keywords:

Germanic traditions - Hildebrand and Adubrando - generational conflict - rhizomatic narrativity, Germanic traditions, Hildebrand, Adubrando, Generational conflict, Rhizomatic narrativity

Abstract

The archetypal tale of the fight between father and son, which is variously modulated in numerous cultural areas, has its lesser-known manifestation in the Germanic traditions: it is a narrative complex which moves across centuries, boundaries and communicative codes, taking on different – even contrasting – characteristics. A nonlinear narrative, then, but a rhizomatic one, which this essay aims to examine through some of its major attestations from the 9th to the 20th century: the Old German Lay of Hildebrand, the Gesta Danorum of the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus, the Icelandic Ásmundar saga kappabana and the Norwegian Þiðreks saga af Bern, the Early New High German ballad Jüngeres Hildebrandslied with images accompanying some witnesses, and the tragedy Hildebrand und Hadubrand staged in 1944.

Author Biography

Maria Grazia Cammarota, Università degli studi di Bergamo

Maria Grazia Cammarota is Full Professor of Germanic Philology at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Bergamo. Her research activity is mainly devoted to the study of Old and Middle German and of Old English, with a particular focus on issues related to ecdotics and translation. Volumes include the critical editions (with translation and notes) of Tannhäuser’s poems (Tannhäuser. Le liriche del Codice Manesse, Sestante 2006), Freidank’s gnomic verses on Acre (Freidank. L’indignazione di un poeta-crociato, Carocci 2011), and the German version of the treatise De vocatione gentium (Barbara locutio. Il “De vocatione gentium” latino-antico alto tedesco dei Frammenti di Mondsee, with Francesco Lo Monaco, Sismel 2021).

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Published

30-12-2023

How to Cite

Cammarota, M. G. (2023). The verbal and physical confrontation between father and son in the Germanic world. Elephant & Castle, (31). Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/473

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No. 31 (2023): Movement II. Genealogies, matrices, filiations

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