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The article argues that within the genre of the Arthurian romance the tales about King Arthur’s vow to fast, show a possibility to conceptualize the status of ‘text’, a possibility which has historically become unfamiliar. Under these circumstances the act of telling and the content of what is told differ, if at all, slightly and this seems to be an explanation for the fact that the medieval language provided only one word for the tale and its plot: âventiure.
Hartmann von Aue’s borrowing of the world âventiure from French in his ‘Erec’ means that the term was developed further in the field of poetology – it did not only mean an ‘event which was told’, but it also came to mean ‘the act of telling as a (medial) event’, as a successful (or unsuccessful) creation of sense. In the ‘Nibelungenlied ‘,’âventuire’ has the connotation of contingency as establishing order by means of the plot failures. This deficit is compensated by the fascination of the singer’s performance. This is where Wolfram starts.