Wigamur

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Zusammenfassung: "Wigamur is an anonlymously-authored, thirteenth-century Middle High German romance about a king's son who is lost to his parents at infancy ... The romance is perhaps the most fully realized example of the Fair Unknown, or Bel Inconnu, motif in both the German and larger European Arthurian traditions ... This volume ... presents an edition of the text (based on the only complete manuscript, Wolffenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 51.2. Aug. 4° (W), dating from the last half of the fifteenth century, accompanied by facing translation, notes and introduction."--Page 4 of cover