15. Adam and Eve partCodex Vindob. 2980, Folio 45r, 140 x 83 mm. Placed before l. 1618 and illustrates ll. 1618-1632.
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How Adam and Eve parted and went more than a thousand miles from one anotherText
She then left in anger, prompted by a foolish impulse, and in sorrow and haste walked more than a thousand miles. That was far indeed. She carried a child under her heart, which she had conceived of Adam. Full of sorrow Adam too went on a long walk. And impulse forced him to do it. He went as far as the place where the sun rises. Alas, sweet Lord and God, when have two lovers ever been as far from one another as these two? (1618-1629, Translation by Halford, 1984, p. 264)Analysis
"Adam and Eve are shown walking away in opposite directions. They are looking back over their shoulders at each other, but Eve is holding herself erect, her expression is haughty and her arms are folded. This attitude expresses her anger but may also indicate that she is now with child. Adam, on the other hand, is raising his right hand in a gesture of reluctant farewell. . . . Lutwin's best known adaptation of his Latin source is here, where instead of leaving Adam out of feelings of shame (Vita Adae et Evae XVIII) Eve departs in anger because Adam insists on valuing that which they have lost, Paradise, more highly than that which they have just found, namely their love [see Murdoch, 1978 (below)]" (Halford, 1980, pp. 22-23.)Bibliography
Halford, M-B. Illustration and Text in Lutwin's Eva und Adam: Codex Vindob. 2980, Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 303; Stuttgart: Kummerle Verlag, 1980.Halford, M-b. Lutwin's Eva und Adam, Goppingen Arbeiten zur Germanistik, Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1984.
Murdoch, B. Eve's Anger: Literary Secularization in Lutwin's Adam und Eva, Archiv 215 (1978): 256-271.