Dietrich von Bern’s Captivity Among Monsters: A Heroic Motif and its Variations in Waldere, Virginal, Sigenot, and Laurin

Authors

Jonathan Seelye Martin, Illinois State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2026

Publication Title

The Explicator

Keywords

heroic poetry, Germanic, oral literature, variance

Funding Source

This article was published Open Access thanks to a transformative agreement between Milner Library and Taylor & Francis.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.1080/00144940.2026.2629576

Comments

First published in The Explicator (2026): https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2026.2629576

Recommended Citation

Seelye, J. (2026). Dietrich von Bern’s captivity among monsters: a heroic motif and its variations in Waldere, Virginal, Sigenot, and Laurin . The Explicator, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2026.2629576