King Arthur in Slovenia? From Wolfram von Eschenbach to Hans von Thal and Beyond

Špela Truden

doi:10.4312/an.58.2.35-56

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Špela Truden

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https://doi.org/10.4312/an.58.2.35-56

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Slovenian ethnic territories, Antiquity, Celts, King Arthur, Kralj Matjaž, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Minnesang, Holy Roman Empire, folklore, mechanisms for the formation of national identities

Abstract

The study explores textual references to Arthurian material in some Slovenian and German language literature to determine the reasons and manner in which they appeared. Even though ethnologists, folklorists and literary historians generally don‘t think about the South Eastern Alps and present-day Slovenia as Arthurian settings, there have been some interesting Slovenian texts concerning the matter that remain rather obscure to the general scientific public due to their unavailability in English. On placing references of Arthurian material into more detailed historic, cultural and political contexts, the picture becomes importantly clearer.

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