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

Truden, Špela (author)

The study explores textual references to Arthurian material in some Slovenian and Ger-man 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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovenian ethnic territories, antiquity, Celts, King Arthur, Kralj Matjaž, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Minnesang, Holy Roman Empire, folklore, mechanisms for the formation of national identities
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 35-56
• Numbering: [Letn.] 58, [št.] 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179841
• UDC: 82(100).09-392"04/14"(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0567-784X
• DOI: 10.4312/an.58.2.35-56
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269634819
• Publication date in RUL: 25.02.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta neophilologica
• Shortened title: Acta neophilol.
• Publisher: Filozofska fakulteta, Filozofska fakulteta, Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 0567-784X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16130818

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Kralj Arthur v Sloveniji? : Od Wolframa von Eschenbacha do Hansa von Thala in še dlje

Abstract

V Parzivalu Wolframa von Eschenbacha se pojavljajo imena krajev na slovenskem etnič-nem ozemlju. Čeprav etnologi in literarni zgodovinarji o območju jugovzhodnih Alp in moderne Republike Slovenije v glavnem ne razmišljajo v kontekstu Arturijanskih legend, o tej temi obstaja nekaj zanimivih slovenskih besedil, ki so angleško govorečim raziskoval-cem zaradi nedostopnosti v angleščini nepoznana. Če umestimo Arturijansko vsebino v podrobnejši lokalni zgodovinski, kulturni in deloma politični kontekst s pomočjo besedil, ki so nam na voljo, se podoba pomembno izostri.

• Keywords: slovenska etnična ozemlja, antika, Kelti, Kralj Artur, Kralj Matjaž, Wolfram von Eschenbach, viteška epika, Sveto rimsko cesarstvo, folklora, mehanizmi oblikovanja narodnih identitet