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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Gottfried von Strassburg

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 H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

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

But Gottfried von Strassburg, with his vivid, sensuous imagination and keen eye for beauty, shewed a distinct advance both in taste and achievement.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

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

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