Gottfried von Strassburg

British  

/ ˈɡɔtfriːt fɔn ˈʃtraːsbʊrk /

noun

1. early 13th-century German poet; author of the incomplete epic Tristan and Isolde, the version of the legend that served as the basis of Wagner's opera

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Example Sentences

Gottfried von Strassburg; extracts from his “Tristan,”—a heroic poem.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

The following extracts are taken from a hymn to the Virgin, formerly attributed to Gottfried von Strassburg.

From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by MacClintock, Porter Lander

Gottfried von Strassburg, a German poet who flourished at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins

It soon became known in Germany, where, in the hands of Gottfried von Strassburg, and especially of Wolfram von Eschenbach, it assumed its most perfect and popular form.

From Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)