Dietmar von Aist
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Dietmar von Aist was a Minnesinger from a baronial family in the Duchy of Austria, whose work is representative of the lyric poetry in the Danube region.
Dietmar von Aist pictured as a peddler in the Codex Manesse, f. 64r
Dietmar von Aste: Alternative names used in the early literature for Dietmar von Aist are Dietmar von Aste or von Ast, as depicted above in the "Konstanz-Weingartner Liederhandschrift" (written around 1310-1320 in the monastery St. Martin at Weingarten near Ravensburg). The unicorn served as heraldic animal for Dietmar.
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Diu Crône
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Diu Crône is a Middle High German poem of about 30,000 lines treating of King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, dating from around the 1220s and attributed to the epic poet Heinrich von dem Türlin. Li
Dietmar von Aist
…mentioned in further records, who died childless about 1171, is possibly the same as Dietmar von Aist. Dietmar is also referred to in the 1220s poem Diu Crône by Heinrich von dem Türlin. A whole series of songs is ascribed to Dietmar, but his authorship can be clearly decided in only a few cases. With those…
Heinrich von dem Türlin: Diu Crône. Heidelberg, UB, cpg 374, 1r.