Abstract
Not only in recent times has the investigation of “the phantom of chance” in human culture been acknowledged as a task regarding which “every human being has to come to some conclusion, if only to decide that life is, or is not, worth living, and that on the whole he is willing to ‘take a chance’”. Given the frequent experience of what is “not controlled, secured, or necessitated by other things in advance of its own actual presence”, human attempts to restrain the fear of the unexpected through narration may be considered an anthropological constant. The narratological examination of chance, therefore, has been called a cornerstone in a theory of the world-modelling functions of narration. However, within the field of literary studies, vast territory has been left untouched so far, including large parts of pre-modern literature. Only recently, with the focus on medieval German lore, have scholars started to focus on the matter more deliberately.
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