![]() ![]() ![]() He created primarily three major works: his Parzival ( c. 1205), Books 3 to 13 of which are based on Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval le Gallois or Le Conte du Graal ( c. 1170–1190) Willehalm ( c. 1210–1220), based on the Old French genre of the chanson de geste, specifically the Bataille d’Aliscans ( c. 1180–1190) and his Titurel fragments ( c. 1220), which consist of a most original tale with some loose narrative threads from Parzival, here taken up and developed further, leading to a tragic outcome, as far as we can tell. Even though Wolfram von Eschenbach’s contemporary Gottfried von Straßburg seems to have disliked his colleague, as we can tell from a disparaging remark in the latter’s literary excursus in his Tristan ( c. 1210), Wolfram’s audiences throughout the Middle Ages and his readers today have both paid greatest respect to this extraordinary writer. ![]()
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