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The Middle High German Poem of Willehalm
出版
F. Ungar Publishing Company
, 1977
主題
Poetry / General
Poetry / European / German
ISBN
0804421838
9780804421836
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=avscAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Wolfram von Eschenbach (fl. c. 1195-1225), best known as the author of Parzival, based Willehalm, his epic poem of military prowess and courtly love, on the style and subject matter of an Old French chanson de geste. In it he tells of the love of Willehalm for Giburc, a Saracen woman converted to Christianity, and its consequences. Seeking revenge for the insult to their faith, her relatives initiate a religious war but are finally routed. Wolfram's description of the two battles of Alischanz, with their massive slaughter and loss of heroes, and of the exploits of Willehalm and the quasicomic Rennewart, well displays the violence and courtliness of the medieval knightly ideal. Wolfram flavors his brutal account, however, with tender scenes between the lovers, asides to his audience, sympathetic cameos of his characters-especially the women-and, most unusually for his time, a surprising tolerance for 'pagans'.
