CONTENTS OF PART FIRST PAGE I. The Lay of Hildebrand 3 II. The Merseburg Charms 5 III. The Wessobrunn Prayer 6 IV. The Muspilli 7 V. The Heliand 8 VI. The Old Saxon Genesis 13 VII. Otfried’s Book of the Gospels 15 VIII. The Lay of Ludwig 22 IX. Waltharius Manu Fortis 24 X. Rudlieb 32 XI. Ezzo’s Lay of the Miracles of Christ 35 XII. Heinrich von Melk 36 XIII. The Arnstein Hymn to the Virgin 38 XIV. Lamprecht’s Lay of Alexander 41 XV. Konrad’s Lay of Roland 45 XVI. King Rother 50 XVII. Duke Ernst 54 XVIII. The Lay of the Nibelungs 58 XIX. Gudrun 73 XX. The Earlier Minnesingers 83 XXI. Walter von der Vogelweide 88 XXII. Heinrich von Veldeke’s Eneid 96 XXIII. Hartmann von Aue 100 XXIV. Wolfram von Eschenbach 110 XXV. Gottfried von Strassburg 119 XXVI. Konrad von Würzburg 128 XXVII. Later Minnesingers 132 XXVIII. Poems of the Dietrich-Saga 139 XXIX. Meyer Helmbrecht 148 XXX. Thomasin of Zirclaere 154 XXXI. Der Stricker 157 XXXII. Freidank 160 XXXIII. Play of the Ten Virgins 162 XXXIV. Easter Plays 164 XXXV. Reynard the Fox 171 XXXVI. Peter Suchenwirt 177 XXXVII. Brant’s Ship of Fools 179 XXXVIII. Folk-songs of the Fifteenth Century 182 XXXIX. Late Medieval Religious Prose 189 CONTENTS OF PART SECOND