King Rother and His Bride: Quest and Counter-Quests

by Thomas Kerth

King Rother, a twelfth-century bridal-quest epic, occupies an important place in the history of German literature. The earliest surviving and structurally most sophisticated of the so-called minstrel epics, verse narratives once assumed to have been recited by itinerant minstrels before a courtly audience, it has its roots in German folklore and documents the transition from orality to the culture of the book. The text belongs to the subgenre of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134360
• ISBN13: 9781571134363
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"