In spite of its essentially Low German character, _Eulenspiegel_ was extremely popular in other lands, and, at an early date, was translated into Dutch, French, English, Latin, Danish, Swedish, Bohemian and Polish. In England, "Howleglas" (Scottish, _Holliglas_) was long a familiar figure; his jests were rapidly adapted to English conditions, and appropriated in the collections associated with Robin Goodfellow, Scogan and others. Ben Johnson refers to him as "Howleglass" and "Ulenspiegel" in his _Masque of the Fortunate Isles, Poetaster, Alchemist_ and _Sad Shepherd_, and a verse by Taylor the "water poet" would seem to imply that the "Owliglasse" was a familiar popular type. Till Eulenspiegel's "merry pranks" have been made the subject of a well-known orchestral symphony by Richard Strauss. In France, it may be noted, the name has given rise to the words _espiègle_ and _espièglerie_.
The Strassburg edition of 1515 (British Museum) has been reprinted by H. Knust in the _Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke des 16. und 17. Jahrh._ No. 55-56 (1885); that of 1519 by J.M. Lappenberg, _Dr Thomas Murners Ulenspiegel_ (1854). W. Scherer ("Die Anfänge des Prosaromans in Deutschland," in _Quellen und Forschungen_, vol. xxi., 1877, pp. 28 ff. and 78 ff.) has shown that there must have been a still earlier High German edition. See also C. Walter in _Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch_, xix. (1894), pp. 1 ff. Further editions appeared at Cologne, printed by Servais Kruffter, undated (reproduced in photo-lithography from the two imperfect copies in Berlin and Vienna, 1865); Erfurt, 1532, 1533-1537 and 1538; Cologne, 1539; Strassburg, 1539; Augsburg, 1540 and 1541; Strassburg, 1543; Frankfort on the Main, 1545; Strassburg, 1551; Cologne, 1554, &c. Johann Fischart published an adaptation in verse, _Der Eulenspiegel Reimensweis_ (Strassburg, 1571), K. Simrock a modernization in 1864 (2nd ed., 1878); there is also one by K. Pannier in Reclam's _Universalbibliothek_ (1883). The earliest translation was that into Dutch, printed by Hoochstraten at Antwerp (Royal Lib., Copenhagen); it is undated, but may have appeared as early as 1512. See facsimile reprint by M. Nijhoff (the Hague, 1898). This served as the basis for the first French version: _Ulenspiegel, de sa vie, de ses oeuvres et merveilleuses aduentures par luy faictes ... nouuellement translate et corrige de Flamant en Francoys_ (Paris, 1532). Reprint, edited by P. Jannet (1882). This was followed by upwards of twenty French editions down to the beginning of the 18th century. The latest translation is that by J.C. Delepierre (Bruges, 1835 and 1840). Cf. Prudentius van Duyse, _Étude littéraire sur Tiel l'Espiègle_ (Ghent, 1858). The first complete English translation was also made from the Dutch, and bears the title: _Here beginneth a merye Jest of a man called Howleglas_, &c., printed by Copland in three editions, probably between 1548 and 1560. Reprint by F. Ouvry (1867). This, however, was itself merely a reprint of a still older English edition (1518?), of which the British Museum possesses fragments. Reprinted by F. Brie, _Eulenspiegel in England_ (1903). In 1720 appeared _The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures of Tiel Eulenspiegel. Made English from the High-Dutch_; and an English illustrated edition, adapted by K.R.H. Mackenzie in 1880 (2nd ed., 1890). On Eulenspiegel in England, see especially C.H. Herford, _Studies in the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century_ (1888), pp. 242 ff., and F. Brie's work already referred to. (J. G. R.)