Marginal thinking: 07. Thielman Kerver (Dutch)
The fool ends the dance: We must all into one pot.
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The dance of death in Berlin ends with a fool standing in a pot.
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Thielman Kerver has published
a variant of Simon Vostre's dance with 66 figures in Latin.
The same series also exists in Dutch.
The Dutch text has been transcribed in
"Noord en zuid", volume 16, pp. 11-17.
I have checked the text (which of course varies between the different editions),
and placed the text over each image.
The dance ends with the fool, saying:
»Het is ghelijc of wijs of sot / wi moeten al in enen pot«.
In English: "It is the same for the wise and the fool / we must all into one pot".
This is curiously reminiscent of
the dance of death in Berlin,
which also ends with a fool in a pot (picture to the right).
The series is also available in a Spanish version, but this has never been transcribed
(see external link).
Click any picture to jump into the dance.
Now follows a French dance also by Thielman Kerver.
Thielman Kerver's 66 Dutch dancers
External links
The dance of death
Marginals
Thielman Kerver
