Literature
- Minnesang
- Codex Manesse
- Walther von der Vogelweide
- Heinrich Frauenlob
- Oswald von Wolkenstein
- Epics
- Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein
- Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
- Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan
- Nibelungenlied
- Kudrun
- Ulrich von Türheim's Rennewart and Willehalm
- Rudolf von Ems's works
- Konrad von Würzburg's works
- Eilhart von Oberge' Tristrant
- Chronicles
- Annolied (Early Middle High German)
- Jans der Enikel's Weltchronik and Fürstenbuch
- Kaiserchronik
- Law
- Sachsenspiegel
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