(Enter WALTER the Minnesinger.)

Walter the Minnesinger Friend!

poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist^, scald, skald^, troubadour, trouvere [Fr.]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger

Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Collection of the Minnesinger, Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century.

They lingered in sunny Provence, and in the dark forest-land of the Minnesingers.

The Muses smiled with a look more of complaisance than approval, as they reviewed the army of Troubadours and Minnesingers and the crowd of romancers who followed in their train.

Almost contemporary were the lays of the Minnesingers in Germany and the romances of the Trouvères in Northern France.

AT SUNSET POST NUBES LUX THE HOME-COMING FROM ROME MY GARDEN THE MOUNTAINS OF MERAN OSWALD, THE MINNESINGER AFTER THE VINTAGE THE PASSING MOON AUTUMN IN MERAN THE STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH THE OUTCASTS HEIMWEIL MY LIBRARY TOUT PASSE BESIDE LAKE COMO THE FAUN ISOLA COMACINA THE OLD CARRIER EVENING ON LAKE COMO DELIO PATRI ACQUA FREDDA THE POSTERN GATE UNDINE JANUARY

OSWALD, THE MINNESINGER A Legend of Schloss Forst, near Meran PROLOGUE Oswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautiful woman, named Sabina, who proved faithless to him, thereby causing the poet great mental suffering.

To a cobbler Minnesinger The marvellous stone gave he, And he gave it, in turn, to Keezar, Who brought it over the sea.

It was heaven's wull that in them he should transcend a' the minnesingers o' this warld.

Every German country was ringing with song; the depth of German sentiment found universal expression in ballads and poems, grave or gay, and German idealism inspired the minnesingers.

Rudolf of Ems (a minnesinger, thirteenth century).

Henry Von Veldig (minnesinger), Duke Ernest (twelfth century).

ET'ZEL or EZZEL (i.e. Attila), king of the Huns, in the songs of the German minnesingers.

Beatrice Perham Krone (A); 3Mar65; R357528. Minstrels and minnesingers; singers of the Middle Ages, by Beatrice Perham.

ESCHENBACH, WOLFRAM VON, a famous minnesinger, born at Eschenbach, in Bavaria, at about the close of the 12th century; was of good birth, and lived some time at the Thuringian Court; enjoyed a wide reputation in his time as a poet; of his poems the epic "Parzival" is the most celebrated, and records the history of the "Grail."

OFTERDINGEN, HEINRICH VON, a famous MINNESINGER (q. v.) of the 15th century.

The minnesinger, Rudolf, Count of Neuenberg (end of the twelfth century) imitated him, as also did the Italians Rinaldo d'Aquino and Jacopo da Lentino.

CHAPTER IX PROVENÇAL INFLUENCE IN GERMANY, FRANCE AND ENGLAND Provençal influence in Germany is apparent in the lyric poetry of the minnesingers.

The earlier, the Austro-Bavarian school, flourished in the valley of the Danube: the later minnesingers form the Rhine school.

Dietmar von Aist, one of the earliest minnesingers, who flourished in the latter half of the twelfth century has, for instance, the Provençal alba theme.

This difference is further apparent in the attitude of minnesingers and troubadours towards the conception of "love."

The stanza form and rime distribution of the minnesinger poems continually betray Provençal influence: the principle of tripartition is constantly followed and the arrangement of rimes is often a repetition of that adopted in troubadour stanzas.

n, Savaric de, 135 Minnesingers, 128 Miraval, Raímon de, 39, 83 Montanhagol, Guillem de, 117 Montaudon, Monk of, 11, 69, 79, 113 Beatrice of, 97 Montpelier, Germonde de, 89 William VII.