Heldenbuch
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Heldenbücher is the conventional title under which a group of German manuscripts and prints of the 15th and 16th centuries has come down to us. Each Heldenbuch contains a collection of primarily epic
Title page of the 1590 edition of the Heldenbuch.
The Dresden Heldenbuch, folios 264v & 265r: the first pages of "Herzog Ernst"
The Ambraser Heldenbuch, folio 215r. The initials VF on the shield are assumed to be those of the artist.
The Augsburg edition of the Strassburg Heldenbuch, printed by Johann Schönsperger, Augsburg 1491. Folio 49v.
Eckenlied
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Das Eckenlied or Ecken Ausfahrt is an anonymous 13th-century Middle High German poem about the legendary hero Dietrich von Bern, the counterpart of the historical Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great
Heldenbuch
…Franconian Heldenbuch") from its dialect or the Berlin-Wolfenbüttel Heldenbuch from the location of two of the fragments, and preserves parts of the Eckenlied (E3), Virginal (V3), Ortnit (C) and Wolfdietrich (C), though the fragments do not give any indication of the original order. The large format and…
Dietrich fights against Ecke. SLUB Dresden, Mscr. Dresden M. 201 fol. 91v.
Triad of giantesses, included Ritsch from Eckenlied version E7. Runkelstein Castle near Bozen, c. 1400.
Eckenlied stanza at the top of the page, in the Codex Buranus (c. 1230). This is the oldest transmission of the Eckenlied or of any Dietrich poem. BSB Clm 4660 fol. 90v.