Ludwig Uhland

Ludwig Uhland was born at Tübingen and trained as a lawyer. A leading poet of the Swabian school, he is best known for his ballads and songs, and he was also a scholar of medieval German and French literature.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).