Gottfried von Strassburg

/ ˈɡɔtfriːt fɔn ˈʃtraːsbʊrk /

noun

1. Gottfried von Strassburg13th centuryMGermanWRITING: poet early 13th-century German poet; author of the incomplete epic Tristan and Isolde, the version of the legend that served as the basis of Wagner's opera

Example Sentences

Then turn to the same episode in the old poem of Gottfried von Strassburg; read the scene where the forsaken King Mark, through a window of their forest grotto, beholds the lovers lying asleep with the sword of Tristram stretched between them: He gazed on his heart's delight, Iseult, and deemed that never before had he seen her so fair.

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Gottfried von Strassburg, a German poet who flourished at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century.

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The Tristan of Gottfried von Strassburg, for example, begins well before the birth of its subject, with noteworthy romantic episodes.

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Besides the love-songs and other pieces he wrote, he was the composer of the epic of the Eneide, the first poem of the Middle High German epic poetry, which reached its highest development in the writings of Hartmann von Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach, and Gottfried von Strassburg.

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Their typical landscape may be seen in a passage from Gottfried von Strassburg,—one of Germany's most brilliant poets—where Tristan and Isolde have fled to the forest grotto, in fear of King Mark.

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