Few stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants. The older German version, that by the Swabian nobleman Hartmann von Aue, won instant popularity and became a model of form, style, and language for the many courtly epics which his countrymen composed up to the beginning of the modern period. In recent years, his Iwein has enjoyed a remarkable revival among medieval scholars as ...
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Few stories were as widely known during the Middle Ages as the account of Iwein and Laudine, which appeared in French, Welsh, English, Norse, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, and two German variants. The older German version, that by the Swabian nobleman Hartmann von Aue, won instant popularity and became a model of form, style, and language for the many courtly epics which his countrymen composed up to the beginning of the modern period. In recent years, his Iwein has enjoyed a remarkable revival among medieval scholars as traditional interpretations have been challenged by new ones.
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Add this copy of Iwein: the Knight With the Lion to cart. $18.62, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1979 by University of Nebraska Press.
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Fine. Fine First American Edition Green Hardcover. Clean pages free of underlines. NOT a library book. University of Nebraska Press, 1979. The German Arthurian romances, (outside of Wolfram's 'Parzival' which is in own category) are closer to the Welsh Celtic 'Otherworld' than even the French originals. This tale here of 'Iwein The Knight with the Lion' is so wonderful and the translation is so easy to read in modern English prose. Fine clean collectible condition hardcover. No jacket was ever offered by the publisher. Three Geese In flight Arthurian and Celtic books since 1977 we wrap our books first in brown paper to protect. See our Three Geese in Flight Book Scans.
