Willehalm

Willehalm is an unfinished Middle High German poem from the early 13th century, written by the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach. The poem's subject matter is in both the chivalric romance genre and the chanson de geste genre.

Sources

Willehalm is based on French sources. Its foremost French source is the poem Aliscans, which was written a few decades earlier.[1] The French sources were provided by Wolfram's patron, Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia.[2] Willehalm represents (even in its unfinished form) a drastic but artistic condensation of the sprawling French adventures Wolfram inherited.[3] The poem deals with the adventures of the Carolingian figure of Count William of Toulouse,[4] who featured in the Carolingian song-cycle La Geste de Garin de Monglane.[5]

Date

Written after the completion of Parzival - and referring as it does to the coronation of Emperor Otto in 1209 - Willehalm has been dated to the second decade of the 13thC.[6]

Prologue

Wolfram's prologue to Willehalm had a major influence of the romance writings of the Middle Ages.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Book: Rennewart in Wolfram's "Willehalm": A Study of Wolfram von Eschenbach and His Sources, by Carl Lofmark, year 1992 -- for that book reviewed, see Ref. See also The Source of Wolfram's "Willehalm", by Susan Almira Bacon, year 1910, 190 pages.
  2. ↑ H. M/ Mustard/C. E. Passage eds., Parzival (1961) p. xvi-viii
  3. ↑ W. Haug/P. Boyle, Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (2006) p. 180
  4. ↑ H. M/ Mustard/C. E. Passage eds., Parzival (1961) p. xvi
  5. ↑ J. B. Bury ed., The Cambridge Medieval History (1929) Vol. VI p. 819-21
  6. ↑ H. M/ Mustard/C. E. Passage eds., Parzival (1961) p. xvi-vii
  7. ↑ W. Haug/P. Boyle, Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (2006) p. 318

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