page_title: Lamme Goedzak
section_title: Cultural status
hierarchical_section_title: Lamme Goedzak / Cultural status
caption_attribution_description: Damse Vaart
context_page_description: Lamme Goedzak is a character in Charles De Coster's novel The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak. He is the best friend of Thyl Ulenspiegel. While Ulenspiegel himself is derived from Dutch-German-Flemish folklore Lamme Goedzak is entirely created by De Coster. Despite this he has become one of the most recognizable Flemish folklore characters since.
  Camille Huysmans, in his commentary on De Coster, considered Lamme Goedzak to be modeled on Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's loyal companion in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes.
context_section_description: The expression "lamme goedzak" has become an eponym in the Dutch language, referring to a "good, loveable, but naïve person, prone to being taken advantage of."  The term is also used for obese, jolly people who enjoying eating and drinking. Certain Flemish comics characters, like Lambik and Nero, have also been compared with Lamme Goedzak in terms of character. 
  A boat trip from Bruges to Damme has been named after him, a theater company in Bruges, a local history organization in Ruddervoorde  and a beer brand. Various restaurants and cafés in Lebbeek, Breda, Belsele, Zoersel , Noordwijk, and Bonn.
  Jean Carmet played Lamme in the 1956 film adaptation of the story, Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle.
  In the Flemish TV series "Tijl Uilenspiegel" (1961) Anton Peters played the part of Lamme.
  Ray Goossens had a 1945 comic strip based on Tijl Uilenspiegel, where Tijl and Lamme Goedzak were portrayed as a comedic duo. The series was sometimes called Tijl en Lamme too. 
  Willy Vandersteen used Lamme Goedzak in his 1952-1954 comic book adaptation of "Tijl Uilenspiegel". In Vandersteen's final comics series, De Geuzen (1985-1990), which is set in the 16th century, the central character is a young intelligent man named Hannes. His sidekick is an obese man who enjoys eating and drinking and who is clearly an expy of Lamme Goedzak, down to his name "Tamme".
caption: The boat trip Lamme Goedzak on the Damse Vaart
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