Middle High German
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Middle High German is the term for the form of High German spoken in the High Middle Ages. It is conventionally dated between 1050 and 1350, developing from Old High German into Early New High German.
Manuscript page from Rolandslied, written in Middle High German in the 12th century
German territorial expansion before 1400 from F. W. Putzger
Middle High German dialect boundaries
Manuscript B of Hartmann von Aue's Iwein (Gießen, UB, Hs. 97), folio 1r
Kudrun
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Kudrun, is an anonymous Middle High German heroic epic. The poem was likely composed in either Austria or Bavaria around 1250. It tells the story of three generations of the ruling house of Hetelings
First page of Kudrun. Ambraser Heldenbuch, Austrian National Library Cod. ser. nova 2663 fol. 140t.
"Kudrun is led away imprisoned" (1885) by Johannes Gehrts.
Hildr attempts to mediate on the picture stone Smiss (I)
Kudrun washes clothes at the seashore. From Die Gartenlaube (1899)