{"id":911,"date":"2012-10-04T10:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:08:52","slug":"a-mhg-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"A Medieval German Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At the end of the text by Erhard Wameshafft, we find a short riddle, filling the bottom of the page:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>edlle junckffrau radent wa\u00df ist da\u00df\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em> zwyernet f\u00fcnff und eyn\u00df me<\/em><br \/>\n<em> der fynffzehenst bustab am abc<\/em><br \/>\n<em> bedrigt den man und nit me<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8216;Noble young lady, guess what is this:<br \/>\nTwo times five and then add one,<br \/>\nThe fifteenth letter of the alphabet<br \/>\nBetrays men and nothing more.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;&gt;<a title=\"Solution to the MHG Riddle\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=916\">Solution<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>It is typical (although the only case in this manuscript) to fill empty space with short texts. This riddle seems to fit exceedingly well, since the previous text was dedicated to a <em>junckfrawe<\/em> (a young noblewoman or simply a girl), who is also addressed in the heading of the riddle. Is it the same <em>junckfrawe<\/em>? Do we have preserved here a joking conversation about love (where the presumably spoken answer of the <em>junckfrawe<\/em>, to which the riddle replies, is missing)? Or just an intelligent scribe adding a fitting text? This riddle will remain&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Go back to <a title=\"Erhard Wameshafft\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=898\">Erhard Wameshafft<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div>Read on to know what we can deduce by <a title=\"What the Names Tell Us\" href=\"http:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=907\">the names in this manuscript<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the text by Erhard Wameshafft, we find a short riddle, filling the bottom of the page: edlle junckffrau radent wa\u00df ist da\u00df\u00a0 zwyernet f\u00fcnff und eyn\u00df me der fynffzehenst bustab am abc bedrigt den man und &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=911\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}