Lanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature. This Middle High German romance is a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into German. Kenneth G.T. Webster made the first English translation in the 1930s, and Columbia University Press published it in 1951. Following Webster's death, the famed Arthurian scholar Roger Sherman Loomis made slight modifications to the text and expanded Webster's notes. Thomas Kerth's new translation, prepared with the highest accuracy and scholarly insight available to date, includes a new introduction and revised bibliography, notes from both Loomis and Webster, and a commentary reflecting the fifty years of scholarship on Lanzelet since the publication of Webster's translation.
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Thomas Kerth's new translation of this important work makes it possible for a wider readership...to reassess its place.
(David F. Johnson Arthuriana )A successful balance between literal accuracy and the requirements of English prose... conveys much of the liveliness of Ulrich's style.
(Forum for Modern Language Studies )About the Author
Thomas Kerth is associate professor in the Department of European Languages at SUNY Stony Brook. He lives in Stony Brook, New York.
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Whosoever can recognize true words, let him consider what a wise man said in days long past, one with whom all the world has since concurred. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mantle test, bel inconnu, bold hero, water fairy, roman arthurien, liege lady, worthy knight, unknown knight, more recent edition, best knight, red knight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, King Arthur, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Prose Lancelot, Middle Ages, Conte del Graal, Lanzelet du Lac, Wolfram's Parzival, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Round Table, Hartmann's Erec, Hartmann's Erek, Beautiful Wood, Marie de France, Sir Walwein, Vulgate Cycle, Count Ritschart, Huth Merlin, King Lot, King Valerin, Der Lanzelet, Didot Perceval, Emperor Henry, Hartmann's Iwein, King Pant New!
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mantle test, bel inconnu, bold hero, water fairy, roman arthurien, liege lady, worthy knight, unknown knight, more recent edition, best knight, red knight Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, King Arthur, Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Prose Lancelot, Middle Ages, Conte del Graal, Lanzelet du Lac, Wolfram's Parzival, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Round Table, Hartmann's Erec, Hartmann's Erek, Beautiful Wood, Marie de France, Sir Walwein, Vulgate Cycle, Count Ritschart, Huth Merlin, King Lot, King Valerin, Der Lanzelet, Didot Perceval, Emperor Henry, Hartmann's Iwein, King Pant New!
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- Studies in the Arthurian Legend by John Rhys on 5 pages
- The Legend of Sir Perceval by Jessie L. Weston on 4 pages
- The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus in Front Matter, page 179, and page 212
- Celtic Mythology (Library of the World's Myths and Legends) by Proinsias Mac Cana on page 152, page 187, and page 223
- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith on page 184, and page 230
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