Iwein

by Hartmann von Aue

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803273312
• ISBN13: 9780803273313
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"