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Lays of the Minnesingers or German Troubadours of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Lays of the Minnesingers or German Troubadours of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Author:Edgar Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green Subjects: Minnesingers German poetry English poetry Provençal poetry French poetry Meistersinger German (Middle High German) poetry French (Old French) poetry History / General Literar... more »y Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION IV. Germany. -- Songs of the ancient Teutonic tribes. -- Reign of Charlemagne. -- Formation of the Teutdnic languages. -- Remains of the Carlovingian age. -- Fragment of Hildibrant and Hathubrant. -- The Church. -- Louis le Debonnaire. -- Ot- fried. -- Song of Victory of Louis III. -- Legend of St. George. -- St. Anno. -- Popular songs. -- Suabian dynasty. -- Frederic Barbarossa. -- His connexion with the Berengars. -- Hemy VI. -- Frederic II. -- Conrad IV. -- Conradin. -- Decline of German poetry. -- Cultivation of poetry at the minor courts, and in various dialects. -- Low German. -- Landgrave of Thurin- gia. -- Romances of the Suabian age. -- Nibelungen Lied. -- -- Laurin. -- Scandinavian mythology and poetry. -- Harald the Valiant. -- Lyric poetry of the Minnesingers. -- Comparison with that of the Troubadours. Cotemporary, or nearly so, with the most celebrated Troubadours flourished the Minnesingers of Germany. Their poetry was, till of late, almost unknown out of their native land ; yet it is decidedly superior to that of their more fortunate rivals. It is the primary object of the present volume to introduce these early ornaments of a kindred tongue to the English reader; on which account he will perhaps excuse rather more particular detai...« less