Tolkien König Arthurs Untergang
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-608-10793-7
Verlag: Klett-Cotta
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Deutsch, 287 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-608-10793-7
Verlag: Klett-Cotta
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Tolkien, der wichtigste Fantasyautor der Neuzeit, wendet sich einem der größten Sagenstoffe aller Zeiten zu: der Sage von König Arthur. Ein Poem von berückender Schönheit.
Das große Epos um Arthur erzählt, wie der tapfere König sich zum Waffengang ostwärts in ferne, heidnische Länder begibt. Während der König außer Landes kämpft, verliebt sich der Ritter Lancelot in Arthurs Frau Guinever und schafft damit einen unüberwindlichen Konflikt. Als auch noch der verräterische Mordred die Macht an sich zu reißen versucht, treibt die Handlung einem Abgrund entgegen … Neben der Edda und dem Nibelungenlied ist die Arthursage die wichtigste Quelle aller neueren Fantasyliteratur, die hier erstmals in J. R. R. Tolkiens eigener Fassung vorliegt. Neben der kongenialen Übersetzung von Hans-Ulrich Möhring enthält diese Ausgabe auch den Text des englischen Originals.
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I How Arthur and Gawain went to war and rode into the East. Arthur eastward in arms purposed his war to wage on the wild marches, over seas sailing to Saxon lands, from the Roman realm ruin defending. Thus the tides of time to turn backward 5 and the heathen to humble, his hope urged him, that with harrying ships they should hunt no more on the shining shores and shallow waters of South Britain, booty seeking. As when the earth dwindles in autumn days 10 and soon to its setting the sun is waning under mournful mist, then a man will lust for work and wandering, while yet warm floweth blood sun-kindled, so burned his soul after long glory for a last assay 15 of pride and prowess, to the proof setting will unyielding in war with fate. So fate fell-woven forward drave him, and with malice Mordred his mind hardened, saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly. 20 ›Let their fanes be felled and their fast places bare and broken, burned their havens, and isles immune from march of arms or Roman reign now reek to heaven in fires of vengeance! Fell thy hand is, 25 fortune follows thee – fare and conquer! And Britain the blessed, thy broad kingdom, I will hold unharmed till thy home-coming. Faithful hast thou found me. But what foe dareth war here to wake or the walls assail 30 of this island-realm while Arthur liveth, if the Eastern wolf in his own forest at last embayed must for life battle?‹ So Mordred spake, and men praised him, Gawain guessed not guile or treason 35 in this bold counsel; he was for battle eager, in idle ease the evil seeing that had rent asunder the Round Table. Thus Arthur in arms eastward journeyed, and war awoke in the wild regions. 40 Halls and temples of the heathen kings his might assailed marching in conquest from the mouths of the Rhine o’er many kingdoms. Lancelot he missed; Lionel and Ector, Bors and Blamore to battle came not; 45 yet mighty lords remained by him: Bediver and Baldwin, Brian of Ireland, Marrac and Meneduc from their mountain-towers; Errac, and Iwain of Urien’s line that was king in Reged; Cedivor the strong 50 and the queen’s kinsman Cador the hasty. Greatest was Gawain, whose glory waxed as times darkened, true and dauntless, among knights peerless ever anew proven, defence and fortress of a falling world. 55 As in last sortie from leaguered city so Gawain led them. As a glad trumpet his voice was ringing in the van of Arthur; as a burning brand his blade wielded before the foremost flashed as lightning. 60 Foes before them, flames behind them, ever east and onward eager rode they, and folk fled them as the face of God, till earth was empty, and no eyes saw them, and no ears heard them in the endless hills, 65 save bird and beast baleful haunting the lonely lands. Thus at last came they to Mirkwood’s margin under mountain-shadows: waste was behind them, walls before them; on the houseless hills ever higher mounting 70 vast, unvanquished, lay the veiled forest. Dark and dreary were the deep valleys, where limbs gigantic of lowering trees in endless aisles were arched o’er rivers flowing down afar from fells of ice. 75 Among ruinous rocks ravens croaking eagles answered in the air wheeling; wolves were howling on the wood’s border. Cold blew the wind, keen and wintry, in rising wrath from the rolling forest 80 among roaring leaves. Rain came darkly, and the sun was swallowed in sudden tempest. The endless East in anger woke, and black thunder born in dungeons under mountains of menace moved above them. 85 Halting doubtful there on high saw...