Ebook: Der arme Heinrich

London : Swan Sonnenschein, 1895. — 122 p.To the beginner in Middle High German the Arme Heinrich of Hartmann von Aue recommends itself in many ways. It is short, not too difficult, and, from the literary point of view, on the whole, the best introduction to Middle High German literature.The text of the present edition is based upon the editions of Haupt and Paul, and in the preparation of the notes, I have to acknowledge my indebtedness to the editions of Grimm, Bech, Wackernagel and Toischer.In the Glossary I have endeavoured, as far as practicable, to give the advantages of a lexicon by not restricting the meanings and explanations of words to their use in the present text. The references to the passages where each word occurs, are, except in the case of very frequently recurring