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Gottfried von Strassburg Quotes

medieval German poet

Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) was a German poet known mainly for his unfinished Tristan, a romance based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain. Gottfried's poem was the main literary source of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

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Alternative Names: Gottfried • Gottfried of Strassburg • Gottfried of Strasburg

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Similar: Sophocles 45.5% Euripides 45.4% William Shakespeare 44.7% Edward Young 43.5% Ben Jonson 42.8% Geoffrey Chaucer 42.5% Nathaniel Hawthorne 42.2% Honoré de Balzac 42.2% George Eliot 42.1% Victor Hugo 42.1%
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Ez ist ein armer trügesite,
der vriunden alsô liuget,
daz er sich selben triuget.

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