Tag Archives: Der Ring by Wittenwiler

A brief post today because I am not writing from home, but the food-related excerpts from Wittenwiler’s Der Ring are done. I belatedly realised there is an extant English translation after all (it can be found here), so this project … Continue reading →

Another part from Der Ring: A course of greens served with bacon and consumed with no manners at all. Now the cabbage (chraut) was ready, covered in bacon (speck) and fried lardons (greuben). It was served together with fish. The … Continue reading →

Another piece of the feast in Der Ring, illustrating the dangers of eating fish improperly. Then they started on the fish that were on the table. Straub (a server) wanted to try them first (chredenzet haben), but he saw such … Continue reading →

Another brief excerpt from Wittenwiler’s Der Ring: Setting up the tables for the feast: By now, people should have danced, but the feet could not carry them for hunger. That is why four who would serve at the table went … Continue reading →

This is the first part of the most interesting section of Wittenwiler’s poem Der Ring: The wedding feast. The author lays out all tenets of good conduct and every aspect of nicety by describing the exact opposite. Here, we learn … Continue reading →

A short excerpt for today – Mondays are long days. This is from the very beginning of the poem Der Ring when the peasant protagonists assemble for a tourney: The fourth was known as junkher Troll, a man as strong … Continue reading →

This is the second larger excerpt from Wittenwiler’s Der Ring. The story is that friends and relatives give advice to the protagonist Bertschi ahead of his wedding, in this case on good husbandry. The wedding feast is the main source … Continue reading →