Willehalm

Wolfram Eschenbach, S.M. Johnson, M. Gibbs , M. Gibbs

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German

Penguin Classics
01 February 1985

Poetry by individual poets

Wolfram von Eschenbach (fl. c. 1195-1225), best known as the author of

Parzival, based Willehalm, his epic poem of military prowess and courtly

love, on the style and subject matter of an Old French ""chanson de

geste.""

In it he tells of the love of Willehalm for Giburc, a Saracen

woman converted to Christianity, and its consequences. Seeking revenge

for the insult to their faith, her relatives initiate a religious war

but are finally routed. Wolfram's description of the two battles of

Alischanz, with their massive slaughter and loss of heroes, and of the

exploits of Willehalm and the quasicomic Rennewart, well displays the

violence and courtliness of the medieval knightly ideal. Wolfram flavors

his brutal account, however, with tender scenes between the lovers,

asides to his audience, sympathetic cameos of his characters--especially

the women--and, most unusually for his time, a surprising tolerance for

'pagans'.

By: Wolfram Eschenbach
Translated by: S.M. Johnson, M. Gibbs, M. Gibbs
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 218g
ISBN: 9780140443998
ISBN 10: 0140443991
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 February 1985
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wolfram von Eschenbach was the greatest of the medieval German narrative poets. Very little is known about his life, but it is generally accepted that he belonged to a Bavarian family of the lower nobility, that he may have served a Franconian lord, and that for the better part of his creative period he enjoyed the patronage of the great medieval German Maecenas Hermann I, landgrave of Thuringia. He probably died between 1220 and 1230.

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