A minnesinger and a Jew--irreconcilable opposites!
His last production as a minnesinger was a prescription for a "virtue-electuary.
A minnesinger must be a knight wooing his lady-love, whose colors he wears at the tournaments, and for whose sake he undertakes a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
When I returned from my four years' expedition to the Holy Land I found her carrying on an intrigue with Master Friedrich von Sunburc, the minnesinger and chronicler of your father's court.
How I punished her, how the minnesinger was expelled from the court by Meinhard the first, and how she died, abandoned to remorse in her own ruined castle, all that you know.
The troubadour of Provence, like the minnesinger of Germany, imitated these invocations to spring.
Every one knows that the troubadour and the minnesinger thus addressed their lays; and only the style and general character of their earliest poetry can be considered as borrowed from the popular muse.
It is easy for the Minnesinger of the human, to become the Minnesinger of Divine love.
The Minnesinger or minstrel-knights of the latter half of the XIIth and earlier half of the XIIIth centuries are but little known outside of Germany.
Between Seis and Bad Ratzes, set in the forest, are the ruins of the ancient home of the Minnesinger Oswald von Wolkenstein.
The tombstone of the famous Oswald von Wolkenstein is in the inner courtyard, which lies between the Cathedral and the Church of St. Michel, depicting the knightly minnesinger in armour with lance, and pennon, and lyre.
As a Minnesinger he set out early in life upon his travels in a gallant and adventurous age; devoted, one must imagine, to the service and adoration of the fair sex, as were supposed to be Minnesingers in general.
And the few who have ever ventured near the ruined pile after sundown aver that those who do are sure to hear the ancient Minnesinger chanting a dirge-like lay, accompanying himself upon his lute.
The ex-Minnesinger took the part of the latter, and in consequence drew down upon himself Frederick's vengeance.
But the spire of Strassburg Cathedral of which he speaks was not built until the fifteenth century, though the church was begun in the twelfth, when Walter the Minnesinger flourished.
This is a legend written down by one of the old German Minnesinger and called, "Der arme Heinrich" (Unhappy Henry).
Years ago, when I was a maiden freshly returned from the convent school, wandering Minnesinger used to come to my father's castle where they were always made welcome.
The German minnesinger fiddle with sloping shoulders was the prototype of the viols, whereas the guitar-fiddle produced the violin through the intermediary of the Italian bowed Lyra.
Something of the character of the German minnesinger we have seen in our study of "Tannhaeuser," where Wagner gives an idealised picture of one of their courtly contests in poetry and song.
The customs of chivalry naturally fell into disuse when there was no central home for them, and the minnesinger became a memory.
To the great joy of all, he agrees to return to the Wartburg, the scene of his many triumphs as a minnesinger in the contests of song.
The minnesinger Wolfram von Eschenbach based his Willehalm on a French original which must have differed from the versions we have.
There is a grain of humor, too, at least for the modern reader, in a much more sentimental child-play of the minnesinger Hadlaub.
While theminnesinger and the noble were exchanging compliments, Gilbert kept a respectful distance, supporting the harp.
He played upon the harp with more than common skill, and could personate the regular minnesinger to perfection.
It was a little out of character for the minnesinger to carry his own instrument when a harp-bearer was so near at hand.
