MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

The greatest of the Spanish mediaeval songs of deeds and one of the classic works in European literature bears the name of its hero, “el...

Irish princess and skillful healer. Her fiancee, Lord Morold is killed by Tristan. As Tristan comes to her, to be cured from a serious...

Medieval literature in both Latin and the vernacular is full of sharp, often bitter criticism of the world’s evils: the injustice of...

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer...

The cosmology of Norse mythology has "nine homeworlds" or "nine realms", unified by the world tree Yggdrasil. The Norse creation myth...

Brynhild is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Germanic mythology. In the Nibelungenlied, Brunhild is instead the queen of Iceland. Gunther...

Gunther was a historical King of Burgundy in the early 5th century. In the Nibelungenlied, Gunther is a Burgundian king once more and...

Kriemhild is the sister of king Gunnar, she falls in love with Sigurd, who does not care for her, as he is in love with the valkyrie...

In the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, Sîfrit (Siegfried) is a prince of Xanten who is later revealed to have a heroic background...

Odin is a widely revered god. In Norse mythology, from which stems most of the information about the god, Odin is associated with wisdom,...

Thor was one of the most important and famous gods in Norse mythology. He was the son of Odin and Fyorgyn, the earth goddess. Thor was...

The Wise-Woman's Prophecy Voluspa, a seeress, or Völva, who is requested by Odin to share her memories and prophecies with humankind,...

Gabriel Turville-Petre wrote in 1964 that “more ink has been spilled on Loki than on any other figure in Norse myth. This, in itself, is...

Gahmuret is a hero of Parzival, the father of Parzival and Feirefiz. We learn his story reading books 1 and 2. For a medieval epic, it's...

Parzival,or Percival in English, is the hero of a medieval German romance written by poet Wolfrm von Eschenbach. Parzival is a child of...

Yvain, the knight of the lion, is the main character of the eponymous romance written by French poet Chréien de Troyes. In the narrative,...

Laudine is a character in Chrétien de Troyes's 12th-century romance «Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion». Usually known as the Lady of...

King of Cornwall and uncle of Tristan. King Mark is widower and has no children. He considers the orphan Tristan as his own son and...

Iseult's full title, "Iseult the Fair," should tell you a little something about her. Yup: she's a knock-out. She's so drop-dead...

As a knight, Tristan is everything you could want. He's been trained by the best, and he can do it all. His dad made this all possible by...