Abstract Comparative research focused on medieval literature continues to be characterized by many desiderata, especially with regard to the fruitful relationships between late medieval verse narratives, mæren, and the famous Italian storyteller Boccaccio and his Decameron. This paper brings to light four significant Middle High German verse narratives from the 13th or early-14th century that demonstrate remarkable similarities with stories contained in Boccaccio’s Decameron. While the study of Boccaccio’s sources has traditionally been focused primarily on Old French (fabliaux) or Latin sources, here I introduce a number of texts that were composed just a few decades earlier and which express, in surprising parallel, strikingly similar themes that could be straight from the textbook the Italian poet might have drawn from. We have, of course, no specific evidence as to Boccaccio’s direct familiarity with late-medieval German literature, but the motif analysis reveals major parallels between the examples in The Decameron and in those mæren.

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中世纪晚期的德意文学联系：从中世纪晚期德国叙事先例看薄伽丘的《十日谈》

摘要 专注于中世纪文学的比较研究仍然具有许多迫切需要的特点，特别是关于中世纪晚期诗歌叙事 mæren 与著名的意大利讲故事者薄伽丘和他的十日谈之间富有成效的关系。本文揭示了 13 世纪或 14 世纪早期的四个重要的中世纪高地德语诗歌叙事，它们与薄伽丘的《十日谈》中的故事有着显着的相似之处。虽然对薄伽丘的来源的研究传统上主要集中在古法语 (fabliaux) 或拉丁语来源，但在这里我介绍了一些仅在几十年前撰写的文本，它们以令人惊讶的并行方式表达了惊人相似的主题，可能是直接来自意大利诗人可能会借鉴的教科书。我们当然有