1898.] SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. 277 



Here, as Collier says, " ' Poor inch of nature' is all that is want- 

 ing, but, that away, how much of the characteristic beauty of the 

 passage is lost" (Intro., xxxiii). 



Correlated Stories. 



When, in 1852, Konrad Hofmann edited the two old French Car- 

 lovingian poems. Amis et A7?ules and Jourdains de Blaivies, he did 

 not observe the intimate relation which a part of the latter chanson 

 bears to the celebrated and widely disseminated story of Apollonius 

 of Tyre. As soon as the common origin of the two poems became 

 clear to him, he published in the Sitziingsberichte der philosophisch- 

 philologische?i Klasse der k.-b. Akad. d. Wissensch. zu Miinchen 

 (S. 415-41S), 1871, a paper on '^ Jourdain de Blaivies, Apollonius 

 von Tyrus, Salomon und Marcolf." John Koch, in 1875, '^^ ^^ 

 Inaugural Dissertation at Konigsberg, again demonstrated the iden- 

 tity of the two stories, and finally Hofmann completed the study in 

 his Amis ei Amiles und Jourdains de Blaivies (Erlangen, 1882). We 

 have already noted in speaking of the persistence of the saga that 

 in old French there was but one prose version of the Apollonius, 

 and no new poetic rendering of the story ; a circumstance a little 

 surprising when we remember with what avidity the old French 

 grasped new materials, and reduced them to acceptable and popular 

 forms. It is therefore a satisfaction to recognize the old romance 

 undergoing a metamorphosis in the epic of Jourdains de Blaivies. 



Berger next published an edition of Orendel (Bonn, 1888), a 

 middle high German minstrel song which originated, Berger 

 thinks, as early as 1160 (Paul and Braune 13, i). In the twelfth 

 century, the court circles of Germany looked to France for literary 

 inspiration. The most notable epics of the Rhineland that were 

 uninfluenced by the courtly epic were Orendel and Salomon and 

 Markolf. The Crusades form the background of these poems ; the 

 scenes are in the Orient, and the incidents are wars between 

 heathen and Christian. Through varying repetition of the original 

 fable, and by the introduction of auxiliary motives, sufficient bulk 

 for a romance was obtained, and the characters of the beggar, the 

 pilgrim and the minstrel were introduced. 



Orendel is a king of Treves who wins the love of Bride, the heir- 

 ess of Jerusalem ; wanders like Ulysses ; twice frees the Holy Sepul- 

 chre, and brings the Holy Coat to Treves. His counterpart is in 

 Snorre's Edda, i, 276, which in Norway was connected with the 



