Visio Tnugdali

The Mouth of Hell, by Simon Marmion, from the Getty Tondal, detail
Tundale suffers a seizure at dinner, Getty Tondal

The Visio Tnugdali ("Vision of Tnugdalus") is a 12th-century religious text reporting the otherworldly vision of the Irish knight Tnugdalus (later also called "Tundalus", "Tondolus" or in English translations, "Tundale", all deriving from the original Middle Irish Tnúdgal meaning 'desire-valour' or 'fierce valour'). It was "one of the most popular and elaborate texts in the medieval genre of visionary infernal literature" and had been translated from the original Latin forty-three times into fifteen languages by the 15th century,[1] including Icelandic and Belarusian.[2] The work remained most popular in Germany, with ten different translations into German, and four into Dutch.[3] With a recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Purgatory following works by Jacques Le Goff, Stephen Greenblatt and others, the vision has attracted increased academic attention.

  1. ^ Kren & S McKendrick, 112. 43 from Easting
  2. ^ Easting, 70
  3. ^ Frank Shaw, Review of "'Visio Tnugdali': The German and Dutch Translations and Their Circulation in the Later Middle Ages" by Nigel F. Palmer, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 489-491 JSTOR