biography
| name: |
Heinrich von Veldeke
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pronunciation:
[hiynrikh fon veld
| sex:
| male
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| born:
| 1150
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| died:
| 1220 |
| biography:
| Poet, born in the Limburg area. Known to be in the service of the Herren (Lords) von Loen by Maastricht in c.1170, from that date to 1190 he composed ‘Minnelieder’ in the Limburg dialect influenced by the French trouvère/troubadour lyric poems. He had previously (c.1170), produced the religious ‘Legende’ Servatius. During this period he also wrote Eneid, which initiated the courtly epic; one of the first mediaeval versions of the Aeneas legend, it presents this in contemporary and local terms. Stylistically it is innovatory in employing pure rhyme and alternating rhyming couplets while broadly avoding dialect. In 1174 the half-finished manuscript was abstracted from him at a court wedding and returned only nine years later by Hermann von Thüringen, at whose behest it was completed in 1189. |
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