!!!Eleonore von Österreich

Eleonore of Austria, b. Dunfermline (United Kingdom), around 1433, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Nov. 20, 1480, daughter of James I of 
Scotland, 1449 married Duke  Sigmund of Tyrol. Translated the French 
adventure novel "Pontus et la belle Sidonie" into German ("Pontus und 
Sidonia"); her translation had been widely read by the end of the 17th 
century. Two of the main motifs are the repeated separation of lovers 
and the recapture of the empire from heathen powers.

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Edition: H. Kindermann (ed.), Volksbuecher vom sterbenden Rittertum, 
%%sup 2/%1942; R. Hahn (ed.), E. v. Oe.: Pontus und Sidonia, 
1997.

!Literature
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.). M. Koefler, 
E. v. Schottland, 1982.



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