The special charm of satire lies in the precision and sharpness with which the satirist grasps the detail, in the boldness with which he takes up realities that are otherwise largely inaccessible to literature. I would like to address such a detail with a few comments on two passages in Ysengrimus in which the author of Ysengrimus - one manuscript calls him Nivardus magister - invokes the "pillar of Saint Gereon" in Cologne.

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