German

Friedrich von Hausen

c. 1150 – 1190


Friedrich von Hausen, a Rhenish nobleman in the service of Frederick Barbarossa, brought Proven00e7al and northern French models into German minnesong and died on the Third Crusade in 1190.

Five of his songs appear here in Frank C. Nicholson’s translation, Old German Love Songs (1907), made from the minnesingers of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries.

  1. Home Thoughts
  2. Scala Amoris
  3. Civil War
  4. Vision
  5. Faith Unfaithful

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