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398: 152:, changed her name to Giburc, and took her to wife. So Terramer and Tibalt, with numerous other kings from Spain, invade France and roundly defeat Willehalm in a battle so severe that he alone escapes alive. But Willehalm then secures the aid of King Louis of France, returns with a large force, and defeats the Muslims on the same battlefield. 143:
In the story, Eschenbach has the Muslim invasion motivated by a father's desire to retrieve his daughter and a husband's desire to retrieve his wife. For we are reminded by the author in Book I of a well-known tale that the protagonist, Willehalm, March Count of Provence, wooed and won Arabel,
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Though this storyline is simple, Eschenbach develops memorable characters and action, such as the touching death of Willehalm’s nephew, Vivian, a young knight who exemplifies
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represents (even in its unfinished form) a drastic but artistic condensation of the sprawling French adventures Wolfram inherited. For the poem
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has been dated to the second decade of the 13th century. It has survived in sixteen manuscripts.
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Rennewart in Wolfram's "Willehalm": A Study of Wolfram von Eschenbach and His Sources
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daughter of King Terramer and wife of King Tibalt, and brought her from
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and the heroic, with elements of the saintly legend attaching to it."
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The Middle High German Poem of Willehalm by Wolfram of Eschenbach
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The Middle High German Poem of Willehalm by Wolfram of Eschenbach
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is based on French sources. Its foremost source is the
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poem from the early 13th century, written by the poet
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Middle High German
Wolfram von Eschenbach
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Old French
chanson de geste
Aliscans
Landgrave Hermann of Thuringia
Chanson de Guillaume
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La Geste de Garin de Monglane
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romance writings
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Chanson de Guillaume
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Rudolf von Ems
Medieval German Literature: A Companion
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