Der von Kürenberg

Der von Kürenberg, the earliest named lyric poet of the German minnesong, was active in the Danube region around the middle of the twelfth century and is known for his short long-line stanzas, among them the celebrated falcon song.

Seven 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.