BLACKWELL’S GERMAN TEXIS GENERAL EDITOR : JAMES BOYD Emeritus Professor in the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford BLACKW ELL’ S GERMAN TEXTS General Editor: JAMES BOYD DER ARME HEINRICH A POEM By HARTMAN VON OUWF THE CRITICAL TEXT OF ERICH G LE RAC H WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND VOCABULARY BY J. KNIGHT BOSTOCK SOMETIME READER IN GERMAN IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Fourth Edition BASIL BLACKW ELL • OXFORD 1961 Originally published in German Medieval Series, edited by H. G. Fiedler, 1942 PRINTED IN c!rKAT BRITAIN FOR BASIL BLACKWELL & MOTT LTD. BY THF COMPTON PRINTING WORKS (LONDON) LTD., LONDON, N.l AND BOUND BY THF KKM I* HALL BINDERY. OXFORD CONTENTS FAGX Prefaces vii Select Bibliography ix List of Abbreviations xv Introduction xvii § i Hartmann von Aue: His life, his works and his home xvii § 2 Hartmann’s language and style xxii § 3 Der arme Heinrich xxv {a) The moral purpose of the poem xxv (ib) The possible source of the story xxix ((c) The manuscripts xxxi (d) The metre xxxiii Text and Notes i Vocabulary 68 Supplementary note on the MHG Negative 96
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