#thedrick

[wendelsae]

Dear

Weyland, by worms,  wist his wracks; the onthinking earl  orphandoms dragged. Had he his sithes:  sorrow, and longing, wintercold wracks,  woes oft he found, sithen on him Nithod  a need did lay: searing sinewbinds  on the sely man. But that overran-  this so may too.

For Bedhild it wasn't  her brothers' death on her soul so sore  so as herself's thing: what she so grossly  ongotten had: that she eken was;  ever nor might she thrustly ythink  how thole it she should. But that overran-  this so may too.

We, of Mathild,  many have heard, how groundless fell  Geat's sad frie, that all of his sleep  the sorrowlove bynam. But that overran-  this so may too.

Thederick had ought  for thirty winters the Maringsburg-  it was to many couth. But that overran-  this so may too.

We askeden oft  of Ermenrich's wylfen ythoughts;  he walded wide folk, his Gothenriche-  a grim king was that. Sat many a sedge  in sorrows bounden, waiting on woes,  wished oft enough that that kinriche  overcome would be. And that overran-  this so may too.

Sitteth one sorrow-carey,  his sele dealt away, swarthens his soul;  himself it thinketh that endless shall be  orphandom's deal. But may then he think  that in this yond world witty Drighten  wends oft new ways. To earls many  honours are shown, the wisely bloom,  to some woes are dealt.

This, I myself,  to say I will: that I whiles was  the Hedenings' shoop, dear to my drighten,  and Dear was my name. Ought I fele winters  a following til, a hold heretoch,  until that Herrend now, liedcrafty man,  the landright ytook, that to me my earllee  ere had ysold.

But those overran-  this so may too.

Original Anglo-Saxon text

Glosses & Anastasies

I tried to be as close to the original as possible, and if a word is regularly used in old poetry, it's much nobler to bring it back than to persist in awkwardly translating it over & again. though, some of these old words are not ones in the original.

orphandom: (not a gloss but this is actually the Greek cognate of the Anglo-Saxon word and it matches the style so I accepted it, idk)

sithe: companion

sithen: since

sely: fortunate, blessed (doublet of silly)

onget: like beget, but for the woman

eken: with child

thole: suffer, endure

frie: love, the gyden-name is the same word

(by)nim: take, steal (nehmen)

ought: owned

couth: known, the proper sense

wald: rule

sedge: wer, warrior

kinriche: kin-riche, nation-state

sele: fortune, like sely above

drighten: lord

shoop: bard, poet

fele: many (viel)

following: i.e. a position of following, a job

til: good

hold: gracious

heretoch: army-leader, duke (herzog) (the original actually says hláford but you can't alliterate that with a name like Herrend nowadays)

liedcrafty: song-crafty, but I spelled it lied because...

earllee: this is a kenning, eorla hléo, earls' shelter, I just modernised it as is

sell: in the old sense it just means give, without requiring pecuniary transaction. the shoop had a position with his lord who gave him lands, but a rival stole his lord's favour away...

[theoverthinker-thoughts]

No one:

Thedrick:

CHAOS

Tavern owners watching their tavern get wrecked as Thedrick fights with the Royal Guards for the 100th time:

ref pic for Thedrick:

for @cvendycz, @vykerr, @ghostfettuccine, and the rest of the Lunar Flare fandom :)

[wendelsae]

yes, Virginal, 'twas Dietrich who slew Siegfried, and Kriemhild, and he was also the son of Muhammad, and was also a firebreathing dragon-man.

[wendelsae]

Among the most interesting documents from the late period of the heroic tradition in Germany is the aforementioned "Heldenbuch Prose." It appears in the manuscript of Diebolt von Hanowe and in the 1590 printed edition as a preface, whereas in the first five printed editions it serves as a concluding piece (in some copies of the first edition, it was erroneously bound at the front). Consequently, older scholarship features the designations "Appendix" and "Preface to the Heldenbuch" side by side. An excerpt is provided in two additional printed editions of Dietrich epics dating from around 1555 and 1560/65 (see pp. 129 f., 150). This short text—which fills just under eleven pages in the first printed edition—offers nothing less than a comprehensive account of the heroic age. It begins with the advent of the first hero, King Orendel of Trier, and concludes with the passing of the last hero, Dietrich of Bern. The existence of the heroes is grounded in a kind of herogony; their downfall takes place in a massive battle fought outside Bern. The events occurring between this herogony and the "twilight of the heroes" are recounted partly in the form of name catalogs—accompanied by more or less detailed notes regarding the history of each named figure—and partly in the form of longer narratives. Genealogy and geography serve as structuring and integrating elements: specifically, the intricate web of kinship ties connecting the heroes and their association with three distinct spheres of origin and activity: the Ripuarian Rhineland surrounding Cologne and Aachen, the Hungarian realm of the Huns, and the Burgundian Kingdom centered on Worms. Central to the entire work is the story of Dietrich of Bern. If one pieces together the scattered and somewhat disjointed details, a veritable biography of Dietrich emerges: Dietrich is the grandson of Wolfdietrich and the son of Dietmar. When Dietmar’s wife is pregnant with Dietrich, she dreams that her husband is lying beside her; yet upon awakening, she finds a "hollow" spirit—the evil spirit Machmet (that is, Mohammed!)—at her side. He prophesies to her that the child will be the mightiest spirit (!) ever born, and that fire will shoot from his mouth whenever he is angry. Thereupon, the Devil (that very Machmet?) builds the mighty fortress (city) of Bern in the span of three nights. Dietmar has three brothers: Ermenrich, Harlung, and the young Dietrich. Ermenrich rapes the wife of his marshal, Sibeche, who exacts his revenge through treacherous counsel. Thus, he advises Ermenrich to strip his nephews—Harlung’s sons—of the lands their father had bequeathed to them. Ermenrich has them hanged. Their tutor and guardian, the loyal Eckhart of Breisach, notifies Dietrich, and the two wage war against Ermenrich. Dietrich succeeds in capturing Ermenrich’s son, while Ermenrich captures eight of Dietrich’s men. Dietrich offers to exchange the prisoners, but Ermenrich refuses: Dietrich may do whatever he pleases with his son. To ransom his men, Dietrich is forced to surrender his land to Ermenrich. He departs on foot with his followers and arrives in Bechelaren, at the court of Margrave Rüdiger. Through Rüdiger’s mediation, King Etzel grants him asylum. Etzel’s wife, Herche, gives him her niece, Herrat, as a bride. (At this time, Dietrich is a widower. His first wife was Hertlin, the daughter of a King of Portugal, whom he had rescued from the clutches of Goldemar, who had abducted her; cf. p. 106.) Etzel places a large army at Dietrich’s disposal, with the aid of which he reclaims his land. Dietrich had once slain Kriemhild’s husband, Siegfried, in the Rose Garden at Worms. To exact her revenge, Kriemhild—following Herche’s death—becomes Etzel’s wife; she invites all the heroes of the world to a feast at his court and provokes a massacre. Dietrich overpowers two of Kriemhild’s brothers and binds them. Kriemhild strikes off their heads, and for this act, Dietrich cleaves her in two. Later, a renewed battle takes place outside Bern, bringing about the end of the Age of Heroes:

And there they fought one another in single combat until they were all slain. All the heroes that existed in the entire world were killed at that time—save only the Berner [Dietrich]. Then a little dwarf approached him and said: "Berner, Berner, you must come with me." The Berner asked: "Where am I to go?" The dwarf replied: "You must come with me. Your kingdom is no longer of this world." So the Berner departed, and no one knows where he went; whether he is still alive or dead, no one can say with certainty.

(thanks to @1337in7h357r337n337in7h35h3375)