Spervogel

Spervogel is the name given to two itinerant poets of the later twelfth century, distinguished by scholars as Spervogel I and Spervogel II, whose short moral and proverbial stanzas are among the oldest German Spruchdichtung.

Eight songs appear here in Frank C. Nicholson’s translation, Old German Love Songs (1907), five marked as Spervogel I and three as Spervogel II as in his book.