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Reinmar von Hagenau

fl. c. 1180–1205


Reinmar von Hagenau, called Reinmar the Elder, was the leading minnesinger at the Babenberg court in Vienna in the 1190s and a master of the courtly lament.

Eight 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. The Dawn of Day
  2. Praesagit Gaudia
  3. Elegy on Leopold of Austria
  4. Naturam expellas Furca
  5. Prata virent
  6. Spring
  7. The Stolen Heart
  8. Spring Pastime

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