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Gottfried von Strassburg

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/ 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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The notion is according to Kufferath taken from a couplet of Gottfried von Strassburg:   Zwei vil kleinin Wortelin, Min und Din,   Diu briuwent michel Wunder uf der Erde.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight

Isolde, according to Gottfried von Strassburg, knew Irish, French, Latin, and played the Welsh fiddle.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld

The Tristan of Gottfried von Strassburg, for example, begins well before the birth of its subject, with noteworthy romantic episodes.

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

The Middle-High-German poem of Gottfried von Strassburg, composed about 1210-20.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by George Ainslie Hight

Rudolf von Ems, a poet called Der Stricker, and Konrad von Würzburg, all of them living in the middle of the thirteenth century, were more fertile than Hartmann von Aue and Gottfried von Strassburg.

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

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