Rumelant of Saxony [Rumelant von Sachsen] was a traveling poet-minstrel of Sangsprüche in the second half of the 13th century and was one of the most typical and productive representatives of this genre. This is the first complete edition of his texts: Besides the many Sprüche it also contains three Minnelieder little attention has been given to them until now as well as some later Meisterlieder which have also been handed down under the name of Rumelant. This fully annotated edition also provides modern German translations of all of the texts.

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Holger Runow, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.