Der Stricker's Daniel is the first freely invented German Arthurian romance, bringing the genre to a new level of originality. Beginning with Hartmann von Aue's Erec (c.1185) and up until Daniel (c.1210-25), German poets had drawn their tales of King Arthur's knights exclusively from the world of the French romance, most commonly from the oeuvre of the great romancier Chretien de Troyes; but in relating his eponymous hero's adventures against giants, dwarves and fellow knights, der Stricker made a clean break with this tradition, claims that he received his story from the French poet Alberich...
Der Stricker's Daniel is the first freely invented German Arthurian romance, bringing the genre to a new level of originality. Beginning with Hartmann...
This work, part of the series "Authors of the Middle Ages", covers the late Middle Ages and deals with the writings of Sir John Mandeville, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.
This work, part of the series "Authors of the Middle Ages", covers the late Middle Ages and deals with the writings of Sir John Mandeville, John Trevi...
