Gottfried von Strasburg, a medieval German poet and one of the famous minnesingers; flourished in Strasburg at the close of the 12th century and beginning of the 13th; his great poem “Tristan und Isolde,” completed in 1210, extends to 19,552 lines, and has a grace and freshness suggestive of Chaucer.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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