Dass er dich ins Himmelreich woll’ lan,[39]
Das gescheh’ durch meinen Willen![40]
Schweig stille!”[41]
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Tannhäuser.[42]
[42.] Erk and Böhme, I, 40. The Venus of the folk-song represents the German Frau Holde, a love-goddess who holds her court in a mountain and infatuates men to the peril of their souls. Just how and when the saga attached itself to the historical minnesinger Tannhäuser is not known. Urban IV, referred to in the last stanza, was pope from 1261 to 1265.
Nun will ich aber heben an
Von dem Tannhäuser singen,
Und was er Wunders hat getan
Mit Venus, der edlen Minne.