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The Legend of Walther of Aquitaine: Medieval German Texts and Translations
Hardcover
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
ISBN13: 9781961361287
Publisher: Uppsala Books
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The legend of Walther of Aquitaine and his bride, Hildegund, survives best in the medieval Latin poem Waltharius, yet there is also a sizable collection of texts in Middle High German that deal with the Walther legend. Walther appears as a character in epic poems such as Biterolf und Dietleib, Dietrichs Flucht, Alpharts Tod, the Rosengarten, and the Rabenschlacht. Significant allusions to his legend appear in the Nibelungenlied. There are, moreover, two tantalizing fragments (from Graz and Vienna) of a medieval German epic of Walther and Hildegund, which depicts the lovers' escape from the court of Attila the Hun and their felicitous homecoming.
This book is the first and only book of its kind, as it offers facing-page texts and translations of every medieval German reference to the Walther legend. Many of the passages contained in this book have never previously been translated into English.
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