Elisabeth Lienert

Die Historische Dietrichepik (Texte Und Studien Zur Mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik) (German Edition) Elisabeth Lienert German, 1 edition

The so-called ´; historical´ Dietrich epics, the thirteenth-century Middle High German heroic epics dealing with Dietrich von Bern (Verona), the corresponding saga of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic the Great, tells of Dietrich´s warring conflicts with his uncle Ermanaric to gain the rule of Northern Italy. The monograph seeks to fully elucidate the text group (the flight epics Dietrich´s Flight´ and ´; The Battle of Ravenna´ and the associated epic The Death of Alphart´) from the perspective of literary history.