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Das Eckenlied: samtliche Fassungen, ed. Francis B. Brevart, Altdeutsche Textbibliothek III (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999). 3 vols. Vol. I: 103 pp.; Vol. II: 112 pp.; Vol. III: 108 pp. ISBN 3-484-20211-4. DM 142.00.
The Eckenlied is one of a group of medieval German heroic epics concerning Dietrich von Bern that assumed written literary form in the course of the thirteenth century. Like a number of these other works it is transmitted in several versions whose critical analysis and interpretation have been hindered by the...