Sir Able is Tannhauser

The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 19 May 2006
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4599

BlackWilbo at cs.com19 May 2006, 01:51
Surely I can't be the first to notice correspondences between Sir Able and Tannhauser? Have misspelled a search , or something? Black Wilbo
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes19 May 2006, 04:57

↳ in reply to BlackWilbo at cs.com

For those of us who aren't big opera fans, can you give us an outline of Tannhauser?
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On 5/18/06, BlackWilbo at cs.com <BlackWilbo at cs.com> wrote: Surely I can't be the first to notice correspondences between Sir Able and Tannhauser? Have misspelled a search , or something? Black Wilbo _______________________________________________ Urth Mailing List To post, write urth at urth.net
maru dubshinki19 May 2006, 05:54

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On 5/19/06, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote: For those of us who aren't big opera fans, can you give us an outline of Tannhauser? On 5/18/06, BlackWilbo at cs.com <BlackWilbo at cs.com> wrote:
Surely I can't be the first to notice correspondences between Sir Able and Tannhauser? Have misspelled a search , or something? Black Wilbo
From the ever-redoubtable Wikipedia: "According to medieval German legend, Tannh?user is a knight and poet who found the Venusburg, the subterranean home of Venus, and spent a year there worshipping the goddess. After leaving the Venusburg, Tannh?user is filled with remorse, and travels to Rome to ask Pope Urban IV if it is possible to be absolved of his sins. Urban replies that forgiveness is as impossible as it would be for his papal staff to blossom. Three days after Tannh?user's departure Urban's staff blooms with flowers;
messengers are sent to retrieve the knight, but he has already returned to Venusburg, never to be seen again." (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tannh%C3%A4user&oldid=52446220 Not our best article, to be sure, but serviceable for our purposes). If I don't miss my guess, Wilbo is struck by the resemblance of a knight spending time in fairy lands of some sort, returning obsessed with honor and forgiveness and such-like, and eventually returning. ~maru

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