DIUTISKA.

Diutiska

AN

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

SURVEY OF THE LITERATURE

OF

GERMANY,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE DEATH
OF GÖTHE.

BY GUSTAV SOLLING.

LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW,
DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.

LONDON

PRINTED BY J. WERTHEIMER AND CO.,

CIRCUS PLACE, FINSBURY CIRCUS.

THE SWABIAN MINSTRELS. LYRIC AND DIDACTIC POETRY.
ARRANGED LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL

ALPHABETICALLY

MINSTRELS

EARLY EPIC POETRY.

'THE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGEN,' 'GUDRUN,' and other Epics

of that Era

EARLY ESTHETIC POETRY.

'ROLANDSONG.' LEGEND OF THE 'HOLY GRAAL,' 'PARCI-

PAGE

ix

xi

1-13

13

14-16f

VAL,' 'LOHENGRIN,' 'TITUREL.' LEGENDS OF KING

ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE,

'TRISTAN AND ISOLT,' 'EREK,' 'IWEIN,' or 'THE

KNIGHT WITH THE LION,' 'WIGALOIS.' LEGENDS

BASED ON ANCIENT POEMS: VIRGIL'S 'NEID,' ALEX-

ANDER THE GREAT. LEGENDS OF A SACRED CHARACTER:

'ORENDEL,' 'ANNOLIED,' 'SALOMON and MOROLT'

GRADUAL DECLINE OF POETRY FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE

14th TO THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE 16th CENTURY,

'MEISTERGESANG,' 'VOLKSLIED,' 'SACRED HYMNS,'

AN ESSAY

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE WRITERS WHO FOLLOWED THE

MINSTRELS, UP TO THE REFORMATION, INCLUDING THE MOST

PROMINENT OF THE MEISTERSINGERS, AND THOSE OF THE

VOLKSLIED

LEGENDS ABOUT ANIMALS (THIERSAGE).

36-58

58-78

78-84

85-106

REINARDUS' (REINECKE VOS)

THE REFORMATION.

LUTHER, HIS CELEBRATED HYMN-EINE FESTE BURG IST

UNSER GOTT.' A Sermon, 'OF THE RESURRECTION OF

THE DEAD,' preached by Dr. Martin Luther, in the

year 1544

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE 17TH TO THE MIDDLE OF THE

18TH CENTURY, an Essay