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892 PEESONIFICATIONS.
rejected and driven to another land . . . we all have taken
flight and are chased out of the land. So Helbl. 7, 61 makes
Wdrheit (veritas) and Triuive (fides) quit the country, but what
he further tells of Warheit is peculiar, how she slipt into a
parson, and nestled in his cheek, but left him at last when he
opened his lips, 7, 65 102. In 7, 751 vices are summoned to
creep (sliefen) into a judge. So that both virtues and vices, like
the daemon, take up their abode in men, and retire from them
again.
But such fancies were not far to seek, and even the elder
poets make Minne especially visit the heart of man, possess it,
(
ach siieze Minne, fiiege dich in ihr herze, und
e.g. MS. 1, 26 b :
ir minnen muot
! gib Notice too the naive question the daughter
puts to her mother, MS. 2, 260 a : nu sage mir ob diu Minne lebe
und hie bi uns uf erde si, aid ob uns in den luften swebe (or
hovers in the air above us) ? She has heard of higher beings,
whom she imagines living in the air, as the heathen valkyrs
glided through it. The mother answers, speaking of Venus : si
vert unsihtic (travels viewless) als ein geist} si en hat niht ruowe
(no rest) naht noch tac ; conf. p. 456.
In the Gute frau 576 : do kam vrou Smlde und Ere, die wurden
sine geverten (companions), die in kit dicke ernerten von aller
slahte swgere (oft saved him from
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harm) ; 6] 1 : im enschatte
ouch niht sere, daz vrou Scelde und vrou Ere sich sin unterwunden
(took charge), do si n uf der straze vunden (found him on march).
vrou 8. loste im diu pfant (difficulties), dar nach versatzte si ze
hant vrou E. aber viirbaz. Dietr. 49 : des hete diu Ere zuo im
fluht (resorted), durch daz (because) er ir so schone pflac (treated);
105 : daz er die Ere het ze hus. MS. 2, 174 a : vro Ere kumt
mit im gerant. Wartb. kr. cod. jen. 112 : ver Triuive nam
(took) an sich die Scham, sam tete diu Zuht, diu Kiusche (so
did courtesy, chastity), Nilte und Ere alsam, si jahen daz ir aller
vriedel waere (they all declared their darling was) der viirste da
uz Diiringe lant; the preceding stanzas make it clear that dame
Faith commands and leads the other five (see Suppl.).
It was clumsy of Otfried, after making Karitas (iv. 29) spin
and weave the Saviour s tunic l in the manner of a heathen norn,
1 The tunica inconsutilis (giscafota sia mit filu kleinen fadumon job unginaten
red non kleinero garno), and ace. to the Crendellied spun by Mary and wrought
by Helena. Whence arose this myth? Greg. Tru. mirac. 1, 8 has already tunica