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points out, indicates a seafarer (Norse Aurr, A.-S. ea)-, moisture 

 — Lat. Aqua). Orendel is the son of Ougel or Oiigel, who must have 

 been the central figure of a sailor myth. Singer supposes the name 

 to be derived from that of one of the rejected suitors of the daugh- 

 ter of Archistrates, called Ardaleo or Ardaleon in the Latin His- 

 toria Apollonii. 



Singer indulges in some bold speculation in his effort to account 

 for "Orendel, son of Eigel." He remembers that in Vienna 

 Codex 3332 the unsuccessful suitor is called Ardonius, as in Velser 

 and the Gesta, and in the Spanish Libre de Apolonio he is named 

 Aguylon, and Singer supposes that the Spanish may be a mutilated 

 form and may lead back to Artlgilon (of the middle German 

 prose). He then imagines that Ardonius Agilon came to stand to- 

 gether, so that the French version, leaning upon domestic names, 

 and mistaking the second form to be a genitive, converted it into 

 Arondeus fils Aiglon, and the German poem in turn transmuted it 

 into "Orendel, Kiinec Eigels sun." Similarly Singer supposes 

 Jourdain to be a corruption of Ardonius, perhaps by attraction to 

 St. Jordan who in 1236 suffered shipwreck on his way to Palestine. 

 The names of the characters in this world-traveled tale have suf- 

 fered in their journeys strange transformations and bewilderments. 

 ApoUonius becomes Perillie in Bohemian and Pericles in Shake- 

 speare. Timoneda names the murderer Estrangilo (Stranguillio) 

 and gives the real murderer's name to a senator, Teofilo (The- 

 ophilus). 



Orendel in the poem is shipwrecked on his way to meet his 

 bride, as ApoUonius is in the Danish ballad. Notice the confusion 

 between the daughter of Antiochus and the daughter of Archis- 

 trates. Orendel consults with his father concerning his purpose. 

 ApoUonius consults with his mother (according to the Danish bal- 

 lad), or with his councilor (according to the Bohemian folks-book). 



The mother and councillor dissuade ApoUonius ; the father en- 

 courages Orendel. The description of the departure of the vessel 

 abounds with lively touches, after the manner of Diimmler's me- 

 trical Latin version. Huge quantities of food are taken on board, 

 enough for eight years, in which there may be a reminiscence of 

 the heavy freighing of the ship on the occasion of the second em- 

 barkation of ApoUonius (to Tharsus) when he takes with him 100,- 

 000 bushels of corn. 



A storm drives Orendel into the Klebermer (literally, sticky sea ; 



