XXVI | Konrad von Würzburg
The most gifted of the romancers after the famous trio. He was born at Würzburg about 1230, wrote some of his earliest poems there, lived afterwards at Basel, then at Strassburg, and died at Basel in 1287. He loved the good old times of knighthood and wrote of them in facile verse whose popularity is attested by several notices. His works are rather numerous. The most important of the longer romances is Engelhart; of the shorter tales, The World’s Reward, Otto with the Beard, Silvester, and the Story of a Heart. This last is given below in condensed form.