The gags of Mavelon

The gags of Mavelon is a historically satirical novel by the German author Steffi von Wolff, who was first published in March 2006. The title, which also refers to the main character and her hometown, is above all a disgrace of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Kultroman The Mist of Avalon.

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Hessen in 1534: Lilian Knebel is seventeen years old and lives with her family in Münzenberg in the Gemarkung Mavelon. When the local herbalist and healer, as at this time generally customary, ends up brewing a potion as a witch on the pyre, the young girl feels like her successor, and in her first experiments with herbs and medicines she invariably invented the antibacterial. p>

However, the state and ecclesiastical authorities, in the first instance Tiburtius and Father Valentin, are not very enthusiastic about Lilian's invention and want to see them burn. She fled with Bertram, the fact that he can not see any blood, in his career as a frightener, the court jester Laurentius and Hiltrud, their astutely clever cow, from Hesse. An adventurous journey through medieval Europe begins, where the refugees meet numerous historical figures (including Martin Luther, Klaus Störtebeker, Christopher Columbus and Michelangelo), who often prove to be too human.

The Odyssey leads the fleeting Hessian finally to Britain, where further whimsical encounters with Henry VIII, Robin Hood and the white whale Moby Dick wait for her Edit Backgroundtext

Von Wolff parodies the genre of the medieval men with female main characters in Die Knebel von Mavelon. It mixes facts with fictions about historical personalities and makes use of the mediaeval life of the protagonists for the most part of the modern everyday language of the 21st century.

In the appendix of the novel there is an explanation of the places and the extent to which the author has mixed poetical freedom and truth. Edit source text Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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