Albanus

Albanus, title given to an anonymous Middle High German poem probably written at the end of the 12th c.; it recounts the legend of St Alban, which has a close resemblance to the story of Oedipus. Alban, the son of an incestuous union between father and daughter, is exposed as an infant, and is found and brought up by the King of Hungary. As a grown man he returns and marries, unwittingly, his mother-sister. The two sinners expiate their guilt in penitence. The story is also told in the Ehebüchlein of Albrecht von Eyb.