Part I

Contents of Part First

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I.	The Lay of Hildebrand	3
II.	The Merseburg Charms	5
III.	The Wessobrunn Prayer	6
IV.	The Muspilli	7
V.	The Heliand	8
VI.	The Old Saxon Genesis	13
VII.	Otfried’s Book of the Gospels	15
VIII.	The Lay of Ludwig	22
IX.	Waltharius Manu Fortis	24
X.	Rudlieb	32
XI.	Ezzo’s Lay of the Miracles of Christ	35
XII.	Heinrich von Melk	36
XIII.	The Arnstein Hymn to the Virgin	38
XIV.	Lamprecht’s Lay of Alexander	41
XV.	Konrad’s Lay of Roland	45
XVI.	King Rother	50
XVII.	Duke Ernst	54
XVIII.	The Lay of the Nibelungs	58
XIX.	Gudrun	73
XX.	The Earlier Minnesingers	83
XXI.	Walter von der Vogelweide	88
XXII.	Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneid	96
XXIII.	Hartmann von Aue	100
XXIV.	Wolfram von Eschenbach	110
XXV.	Gottfried von Strassburg	119
XXVI.	Konrad von Würzburg	128
XXVII.	Later Minnesingers	132
XXVIII.	Poems of the Dietrich-Saga	139
XXIX.	Meyer Helmbrecht	148
XXX.	Thomasin of Zirclaere	154
XXXI.	Der Stricker	157
XXXII.	Freidank	160
XXXIII.	Play of the Ten Virgins	162
XXXIV.	Easter Plays	164
XXXV.	Reynard the Fox	171
XXXVI.	Peter Suchenwirt	177
XXXVII.	Brant’s Ship of Fools	179
XXXVIII.	Folk-songs of the Fifteenth Century	182
XXXIX.	Late Medieval Religious Prose	189