!!!Spielmannsepik

Spielmannsepik (minstrel poetry), generic term for those Middle High 
German epics which are considered to be older than the  Courtly Epics, 
because of their difference from the latter in terms of structure and 
contents. They are assumed to date from the late 12%%sup th/%  
century, but were only written down from the 13%%sup th/%  century, 
anonymously and mostly in several versions: "Koenig Rother", 
"Herzog Ernst", "Oswald", "Orendel" and 
"Salman und Morolf". The only contribution to Spielmannsepik 
that can definitely be attributed to an Austrian author is the story 
of St.  Oswald, which is told in the 15%%sup th/%  century manuscripts 
of the "Wiener Oswald" (1,465 verses) and the "Linzer 
Oswald", of which only fragments (approx. 300 verses) have been 
preserved.

!Literature
M. Curschmann, Spielmannsepik, 1968; J. Bumke, Geschichte 
der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter, 1990.


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