By William E. Jackson
Reinmar der Alte, the twelfth-century poet sometimes called Reinmar von Hagenau, wrote a variety of ‘Frauenlieder’ and ‘Frauenstrophen’, i.e. poems and stanzas within which the speaker is a girl. even though, there hasn't ever been a passable scholarly remedy of those poems. in the course of the heritage of scholarship facing his works, the review has been established usually on a characterization of his character. This quantity attempts to fill this hole by means of proposing and analysing the Woman’s tune of Reinmar.
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