Part I
Reading edition
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I. The Lay of Hildebrand 3
II. The Merseburg Charms 5
III. The Wessobrunn Prayer 6
IV. The Muspilli 7
V. The Heliand 8
VI. The Old Saxon Genesis 13
VII. Otfried’s Book of the Gospels 15
VIII. The Lay of Ludwig 22
IX. Waltharius Manu Fortis 24
X. Rudlieb 32
XI. Ezzo’s Lay of the Miracles of Christ 35
XII. Heinrich von Melk 36
XIII. The Arnstein Hymn to the Virgin 38
XIV. Lamprecht’s Lay of Alexander 41
XV. Konrad’s Lay of Roland 45
XVI. King Rother 50
XVII. Duke Ernst 54
XVIII. The Lay of the Nibelungs 58
XIX. Gudrun 73
XX. The Earlier Minnesingers 83
XXI. Walter von der Vogelweide 88
XXII. Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneid 96
XXIII. Hartmann von Aue 100
XXIV. Wolfram von Eschenbach 110
XXV. Gottfried von Strassburg 119
XXVI. Konrad von Würzburg 128
XXVII. Later Minnesingers 132
XXVIII. Poems of the Dietrich-Saga 139
XXIX. Meyer Helmbrecht 148
XXX. Thomasin of Zirclaere 154
XXXI. Der Stricker 157
XXXII. Freidank 160
XXXIII. Play of the Ten Virgins 162
XXXIV. Easter Plays 164
XXXV. Reynard the Fox 171
XXXVI. Peter Suchenwirt 177
XXXVII. Brant’s Ship of Fools 179
XXXVIII. Folk-songs of the Fifteenth Century 182
XXXIX. Late Medieval Religious Prose 189