sō leiste ich dir geselleschaft: mīn singen ist niht lanc.
dīn sēle müeȥe wol gevarn und habe dīn zunge danc.
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REINMAR.
Reinmar, often called Reinmar der Alte, was by birth an Alsatian. He spent many years of his active life as Court poet at Vienna, where he was extremely popular. Next to his rival Walther von der Vogelweide he was the most prolific and important lyrical poet of his period, cp. [ll. 487-512], pp. 132-3. He died some time during the first decade of the thirteenth century. See Burdach, Reinmar der Alte und Walther von der Vogelweide, Leipzig, 1880, and Bartsch, Deutsche Liederdichter des zwölften his vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, Stuttgart, 1879.
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‘Sī koment underwīlen her
die baȥ dā heime möhten sīn.
Ein ritter des ich lange ger,
bedæhte er baȥ den willen mīn,
sō wære er z’allen zīten hie,