MDT Ep. 93: Helmbrecht Returns, or The Dark Robber Knight
Medieval Death Trip
English - August 03, 2022 02:39 - 1 hour - 101 MB - ★★★★★ - 228 ratingsBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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We continue with Part 2 (of 3) of the 13th-century peasant epic Meier Helmbrecht, in which Helmbrecht returns to his family after a year as squire to a robber knight, and cultures clash accordingly.
Today's Text:
Wernher der Gartenaere. Meir Helmbrecht. In Peasant Life in Old German Epics, translated by Clair Hayden Bell, Columbia UP, 1931. Archive.org.