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a traditional sea, possibly the Sargasso), where he is detained three 

 years, until redeemed by divine help. So in Heinrich von Neu- 

 stadt the fleet of Apollonius is driven upon the Lebermer (same as 

 Klebermer) and detained a year, until the heathen gods chance to 

 pass by and free the hero. 



Orendel has a successful sea-fight with the fleet of the pagan 

 king Pelian von Babilon, which corresponds in Jourdain with the 

 surprise attack by the Saracens upon the sea. Doubtless both inci- 

 dents grew out of the circumstance that in all the versions of the 

 Apollonius story Antiochus equips a fleet that vainly pursues Apol- 

 lonius after his solution of the king's riddle and his subsequent 

 flight. In the old French prose version Antiochus prepares snares 

 for Apollonius even before he comes to Antioch as a suitor, and 

 sends out soldiers to destroy him. Curiously enough in Heinrich 

 von Neustadt Thaliarchus, the major domo of Antiochus, fights 

 with Apollonius, but is conquered in the duel. 



It is easy to account, also, for the appearance in Orendel of 

 the heathen king Pelian von Askalon, who craves possession of 

 Orendel's bride, and threatens to hang Orendel on a gallows in the 

 castle moat. No doubt this is the same Antiochus who desires to 

 live in shame with his daughter and threatens to kill her suitors and 

 impale their heads upon his castle wall. 



Orendel is shipwrecked, lies three days in the sand, and then 

 sees a fisherman approaching in a boat. In the Bohemian folks- 

 book Apollonius swims three days and nights upon a log of wood, 

 and on the fourth day he sees a fisherman in a boat. A similar situa- 

 tion is in the French prose romance. In Jourdain the fisher arrives 

 in a boat, as also in the Danish ballad and the Cretan version. The 

 fisher is old but robust — quendam robustum senem (Riese). The 

 fisherman displays fear of Orendel, precisely as in the Danish bal- 

 lad the fishers fear Apollonius (see p. 233). Orendel tells him 

 that he is a shipwrecked fisherman. In some versions Apollonius 

 refuses to tell his name. So in Godfrey, and Steinhovvel, and 

 Shakespeare — "What I have been I have forgot to know." 



In the French version he says he is a shipwrecked merchant ; in 

 Timoneda he is questioned by a bather, and he says he is a banador 

 from Tyre. 



Orendel offers himself as a servant to the fisherman. In the 

 Bohemian the fisher says, '' Do you not know that having come out 

 of the sea you are my serf? But God forbid that I should do you 



