Abstract
Abstract Focusing on the ›Münchner Oswald‹ and ›Orendel‹, this article traces ambiguity and narrative doubling in early Middle High German adventure and bridal-quest legends (formerly also called ›minstrel epics‹). It argues that these ambiguities, which surface in the texts as instances of narrative incoherence, point toward an incommensurability between certain religious and secular narrative »gestures«, as well as between their underlying forms of thought. To the extent that (presumably) later adaptations of ›Oswald‹ and ›Orendel‹ display an effort to smooth out the incoherences in their source materials, they attest to a decreasing tolerance for ambiguity not uncharacteristic of the late medieval and early modern periods more generally.
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