minnesinger
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of minnesinger
1815–25; < German, equivalent to Minne love + Singer singer
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Albert, who was a Minnesinger, was loyal to the declining fortunes of the Hohenstaufen, and afterwards supported his brother-in-law, Rudolph of Habsburg, in his efforts to obtain the German throne.
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Vogelweid, the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers.
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Then came his relation of romantic wanderings in Southern France and Germany, like a troubadour, or minnesinger, with guitar and song; of his accidental friendships and fancy fraternities, till he became choir-alto at a Lutheran church in the heart of the Eichen-Land.
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Minnesinger, min′e-sing′ėr, n. one of a school of German amatory lyric poets in the 12th and 13th centuries, mostly of noble birth.
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The minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach based his Willehalm on a French original which must have differed from the versions we have.
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