!!!Kleinepik

Kleinepik (epic poetry), collective term for a variety of short rhymed 
narratives in Middle High German (for the most part from the late 
13%%sup th/%  century), which are difficult to assign to a particular 
literary genre, e.g. Fabel, Bîspel, Maere and Schwank. The most 
important representatives of Middle High German epic poetry in and 
around Austria were  Stricker,  Herrand von Wildonie and  Wernher der 
Gartenaere.

!Literature
J. Bumke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen 
Mittelalter, 1990.


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