. Lays of the Minnesingers or German troubadours of the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries illustrated by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe: with historical and critical notices, and engravings from the MS. of the Minnesingers in the King's Library at Paris, and from other sources . d— Villon * fut le premier, dans ces siecles gro&siersDebrouiller Iart confus de nos vieux bientot apres fit fleurir les Ballades, &c. * » * * Enfin Malherbe N-int; et le premier en FranceFit sentir dans les vers une juste cadence; &c. A comparison of th
. Lays of the Minnesingers or German troubadours of the Twelfth and thirteenth Centuries illustrated by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe: with historical and critical notices, and engravings from the MS. of the Minnesingers in the King's Library at Paris, and from other sources . d— Villon * fut le premier, dans ces siecles gro&siersDebrouiller Iart confus de nos vieux bientot apres fit fleurir les Ballades, &c. * » * * Enfin Malherbe N-int; et le premier en FranceFit sentir dans les vers une juste cadence; &c. A comparison of the Northern and Southern lan-guages of France leads to the conclusion, that evenin its best days the former was greatly the inferiorin melody and power, though not perhaps in a pecu-liar naivete and sweetness. Of these quahties, its * Of the 15th 82 FRANCE. beautiful diminutives furnish the most obvious in-stance ; and they were accordingly turned to excel-lent account by the poets, as in such lines as these:— Elle estoyt blanche comme let,Et doulce comme ung aignellet,Vermeillette comme une rose. Unfortunately, these, its most redeeming qualities,have gradually given way before the pretended refine-ments, that at length produced the *belle languewhich is the most unpoetic of European SECTION IV. Germany.—Songs of the ancient Teutonic tribes.—Reign ofCharlemagne.—Formation of the Teutonic languages.—Re-mains of the Carlovingian age.—Fragment of Hildibrant andHathubrant.—The Church.—Louis le Debonnaire.—Ot-fried.—Song of Victory of Louis III.—Legend of St. George.—St. Anno.—Popular songs.—Suabian dynasty.—FredericBarbarossa.—His connexion with the Berengars.—Heniy VL—Frederic II.—Conrad IV.—Conradin.—Decline of Ger-man poetry.—Cultivation of poetry at the minor courts, andin various dialects.—Low German.—Landgrave of Thurin-gia.—Romances of the Suabian age.—Nibelungen Lied.——Laurin.—Scandinavian myth
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