Titurel
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"Titurel" is an epic-poem fragment written by Wolfram von Eschenbach during the Middle High German period. Written in the form of stanzas, it deals with the tragic story of Sigune's love for Schionatulander.
According to Wolfram, Tituel is the founder of the dynasty of the Holy Grail, and is the father of Frimutel and the grandfather of Parzival. This epic-poem fragment influenced countless numbers of poets of the Middle Ages. In the second half of the 13th Century, Albrecht von Scharfenberg expanded it into a narration of over 6300 verses made up of stanzas of four lines per stanza. In the late Middle Ages, this "Younger Titurel" [1] passed as being Wolfram's work, and thus served to establish his reputation as being the most important German poet-knight, even though its literary merit is only slight in comparison to Wolfram's original works.
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- Christoph, Siegfried Richard, "Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Couples," 1981, ISBN 9062035736.
- Jeep, John M., ""Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia", 2001, ISBN 0824076443.
- Wolfram von Eschenbach: Titurel. Mit der gesamten Parallelübersetzung des Jüngeren Titurel. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-484-64028-6.
- Andrea Lorenz: Der Jüngere Titurel als Wolfram-Fortsetzung. Eine Reise zum Mittelpunkt des Werkes. Lang, Frankfurt/M. 2002, ISBN 3-906767-40-X.
- Thomas Neukirchen: Die ganze "aventure" und ihre "lere". Der "Jüngere Titurel" Albrechts als Kritik und Vervollkommnung des "Parzifal" Wolfram von Eschenbachs. Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5231-5.
