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-	'''Till Eulenspiegel''' is the protagonist of a German [[chapbook]] published in 1515 (a first edition of c. 1510/12 is preserved fragmentarily) with a possible background in earlier [[Middle Low German]] [[German folklore|folklore]].	+	{{R from move}}
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-	Eulenspiegel is a native of [[Brunswick-Lüneburg|Brunswick]] whose [[picaresque]] career	+
-	takes him to many places throughout the [[Holy Roman Empire]].	+
-	He plays [[trickster|practical jokes]] on his contemporaries, especially [[scatological]] in nature, exposing vices at every turn.	+
-	His life is set in the first half of the 14th century, and the final chapters of the chapbook describe his death from the [[Black Death|plague of 1350]].	+
-	His name translates to "owl mirror", and the frontispiece of the 1515 chapbook, as well as his alleged tombstone in [[Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein]], display the name in [[rebus]] writing, by an [[owl]] and a [[hand mirror]]. There is a suggestion that the name is in fact a veiled pun on a Low German phrase translating to "wipe-arse". (From a Middle Low German verb ''ulen'' "to wipe" and ''spegel'' "mirror", a term used in the sense of "buttocks, behind" (used in [[Medieval hunting|hunting]] jargon of the bright tail area of [[fallow deer]]); ''ul'n spegel'' would then amount to an imperative "wipe the arse!". Paul Oppenheimer, "Introduction" in: ''Till Eulenspiegel. His Adventures''. Routledge, 1991, p. LXIII. See also [[Swabian salute]].)	+
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-	Retellings of the Eulenspiegel tradition have been published in modern literature, since the later 19th century. Notably, ''[[The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak]]'' by [[Charles De Coster]] (1867) transfers the character to the context of the [[Protestant Reformation]] and the [[Dutch Revolt]]. The Ulenspiegel (modern [[Dutch language|Dutch]]: ''Tijl Uilenspiegel'') from this novel became a symbol of [[Flemish independence]].	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	* [[Schildbürger]]	+
-	* [[Baron Munchausen]]	+
-	* [[Historia von D. Johann Fausten (chapbook)]]	+
-	* [[Hershele Ostropoler]]	+
-	* [[Nasreddin]]	+
-	* [[Sly Peter]]	+
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