Genevieve of Brabant - Literary References

Literary References

In Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, the narrator remembers a magic lantern he had in his room, in Combray, that showed the image of Golo riding his horse towards Genevieve's castle. He says: "... and I would fall into the arms of my mother, whom the misfortunes of Geneviève de Brabant had made all the dearer to me, just as the crimes of Golo had driven me to a more than ordinarily scrupulous examination of my own conscience."

In Chapter II of Volume One of his Reminiscences, Carl Schurz recalls the puppet play of “Die Schöne Genovefa” (“The Beautiful Genevieve”) which he used to see performed in his youth. Its plot is an adaptation of the tale of Genevieve of Brabant.

German poet Maler Müller's tale Golo und Genoveva is an adaptation of Genevieve of Brabant's tale.

See F. J. Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. ii. 1886), art. Sir Aldingar; S. Grundtvig, Danske Kaempeviser (Copenhagen, 1867); “Sir Triamore,” in Bishop Percy's Folio MS., ed. Hales and Furnivall, vol. ii. (London, 1868); The Romance of Octavian, ed. E. M. Goldsmid (Aungervyle Soc., Edinburgh, 1882); The Erl of Toulous and the Emperes of Almayn, ed. G. Lüdtke (Berlin, 1881); B. Seuffert, Die Legende von der Pfalzgräfin Genovefa (Würzburg, 1877); B. Golz, Pfalzgräfin Genovefa in der deutschen Dichtung (Leipzig, 1897); R. Köhler, Die deutschen Volksbücher von der Pfalzgräfin Genovefa, in Zeitschr. für deutsche Philologie (1874).