Product Description: Wunderer is a latecomer among German heroic epics and one of the last representatives of the subspecies known as the Dietrich epic. For the first time, this edition compiles all preserved versions in a form that is close to their tradition: the strophic version of the Dresden Heldenbuch and the Strasbourg edition (in synoptic presentation), both couplet fragments, and the Shrovetide play...read more

Product Description: Das Nibelungenlied zählt zu den zentralen Texten der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. Es ist einer der wenigen, die sich auch im kulturellen Gedächtnis unserer Zeit noch behaupten können. Konsequenz ist, dass die Forschungsliteratur zum Nibelungenlied und allgemein zur Nibelungensage vom Einzelnen kaum noch zu überblicken ist...read more

Product Description: English summary: Despite the publication of several significant monographs in recent years, the Younger Titurel has never been able to shake off the negative verdict it was given in the 19th century. Its artificiality and complexity (or is it just complexity?) have always stood in the way of a closer occupation with the voluminous text...read more

Product Description: Though sagas and the history of sagas have long been relegated to the periphery of literary debate, a new understanding of mythology currently dominates academic discourse. A narrative is two things: every saga, every myth tells a story, but at the same time it evokes the growing concentration of mediaeval philologies on areas of narratological concern...read more

Product Description: Lanzelet is an enigmatic piece of Arthurian literature. Composed soon after 1194, it is the second German Arthurian romance. It was based on a French model, now lost, which could have been part of an "old" hardly accessible Arthurian tradition, so that Lanzelet is a key text in the early history of Arthurian romance...read more

Product Description: This edition of "Ulrich von Zatzikhofen's Lanzelet" replaces the old edition by Karl August Hahn and thus fulfils a long-felt need in German Medieval Studies. In contrast to Hahn's procedure of using the (somewhat sparse) texts to construct a definitive singular critical text, the present edition devotes more attention to the individual manuscript...read more

Product Description: Der vorliegende zweite Band bildet den Abschluß der Neuedition der Krone Heinrichs von dem Türlin, die die alte, häufig als unzulänglich bezeichnete Edition von G. F. H. Scholl (1852) ersetzt. Die auf Handschriftennähe bedachten Editionsrichtlinien von Band 1 (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 112) werden beibehalten, der einzige größere Unterschied besteht im überlieferungsbedingten Wechsel der Leithandschrift von der Wiener Hs...read more