There are contributions-numerically in the minority4n various aspects of mediaeval literature by: Jean Carles, J. Charier, Hans Eggers, Jean Frappier, A. T. Hatto, Michel Huby, Friedrich Maurer, F. Norman, Daniel Rocher, Eughe Vinaver, M. O’C. Walshe and G. Zink; and on various aspects of language by: Marian Adamus, Yves Rent Bertrand, H. Brinkmann, Jean David, Ulrich Engel, Blanche Grunig, J. Kurylowicz, P. Lepinoy, Gotthard Lerchner and Rudolf Grosse, Beml Malmberg, Maurice Marache, Philippe Marcq, Andre Martinet, Hugo Moser, William G. Moulton, William Pie, Herbert Penzl, Marthe Philipp, V. Schenker, Kund Togeby, Paul Valentin, A. Van Loey, Ludwig Zabrocki, J. M. Zemb and Eberhard Zwirner.

There are a number of typographical errors, e.g. ‘okho’ for ‘okno’ @. I), ‘sich begehen’ for ‘sich begeben’ (p. s), ‘ist’ for ‘ich‘ (p. 84), and to see our colleague’s name Walshe spelt Walsche at the head of each page of his contribution is hardly a felicitous innovation!

Perhaps a general plea could be made for the inclusion of a complete list of the publications of any scholar in the Festschr$ produced in his honour. Berust R. G. FINCH

Formen mittelulterlicher Literatur: Siegfried Beyschlag zu seinem 65. Geburtstug von Kollegen, Freunden und Schiilern (Goppin er Arbeiten zur Germanistik 25). Herausgegeben von Otmar Werner unf Bernd Naumann. Verlag Alfred Kummerle, Goppingen, 1970. 292 pp. DM 30.

Like so many of its kind, this Festschrift is in some sense a victim of the stature of the person it is designed to honour. The breadth of Professor Beyschlag’s scholar- ship is reflected, and rightly so, in the wide range of topics covered by the con- tributors, from Nordic studies to musicology, from medieval metrics to the literary activities of Goethe’s brother-in-law: but as a result the volume, despite the apologia of the editors in their preface, lacks unity both in overall plan and with specific regard to the purview of those with more restricted vision. In the same way, the very extensiveness of Professor Beyschlag’s reputation, alike as teacher and as colleague, has meant that this collective tribute of gratitude and esteem necessarily includes roducdons of somewhat m e ual value.

medieval German literature, and they have been set forth in a way which cannot fail to command attention and respect. Bernd Naumann, for instance, examines

p. 23-37) the conventions governing the composition of literary prologues during

tion on the basis either of structure or content, shows how diversified and shifting are the ways in which patterns of exordia1 statement, whether ‘true’ or fictive, could be adjusted to the individual aims of the poets or the varying cultural experience of their audiences (particularly welcome in this connection is his emphasis on the debt of the secular poets to the vernacular sermon). Peter Ganz offers (pp. 63-75) a persuasive interpretation of the ‘Minnetrank’ episode in Gottfiied’s Trisrun, in which the philtre is seen not as a piece of psychological

Several of the su 1. jects treated are, however, o 9 central interest to students of

(i t e twelfth and thirteenth centuries and, rejecting any simple system of classifica-

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symbolism or a rhetorical device, but as a substantial C ~ I I causam of the lovers’ fateful passion. Burghart Wachinger brings out (pp. 98-108) the ‘Rollens iel’

provides a possible bridge between the corpus of authentic songs and the imitations of the Pscudc+Neidharts. Horst Brunner offers (pp. 1 4 ~ 7 8 ) a lucid and extensively documented survey of the vexed roblem of ‘Epenmelodien’, enumerating

conjectural, to be equipped with melodic accompaniment. Bruno Stablein shows (pp. 17g-g~) with detailed musical illustrations how the melodies of Oswald von Wolkenstein’s ‘Lieder’ are endowed, in ‘modem’ fashion, with expressive qualities directly appro riate to the meaning of the texts they accompany. Those who are interested in i e ap lication to medieval writings of the techniques of generative

fruitfd lines of approach. While the sympathy of the present reviewer was immediately engaged by Kurt Ruh’s consideration (pp. 77-90) of Mori z von Cradn, and its degree of indebtedness to the French source and to the D e amore of Andreas Capellanus (this latter thesis has been taken up, independently of Ruh, by G. J. Gerlitzki in his monograph D i e Bedeutung der Minne in ‘Moriz von Craih’, Bem, Herbert Lang. 1970).

It is much to be regretted that the conditions under which the volume was produced apparently precluded the normal processes of proof-correcting, so that an unusually large number of misprints (not all of which by any means have been listed in the Errata section, pp. 2 8 ~ 2 ) disfigure what is otherwise-all in all-a fitting anthology of homage to a master scholar as he passes from the high seas of departmental professordom to the more tranquil waters of ‘Ementierung’. Oxjord RUTH HARVEY

character of Neidhart’s polemical ‘Trutzstrophen’-a distancing feature w L ch

critically all the strophic forms invo P ved and their respective claims, actual or

linguistics will fin B Otmar Werner’s article (pp. 1-30) opening up new and

FestschriJ Gottfried W e b . Edited by Heinz Otto Burger and Klaus von See.

This Festschrift ranks high in scholarly attainment. Hans Georg Richert discusses the doctrine revealed in the Skeireins. He stresses

that ‘ni ibnon ak galeika sweripa’ (ch. 5 ) need not indicate Arianism, and that it attacks Sabellius, not Athanasius. Richert’s translation, ‘nicht dieselbe (identische), sondern gleiche Ehre’, improves on the customary ‘nicht gleiche, sondern ahnliche Ehre’ which admits of an &an interpretation, while Richen’s rendering hits at ‘confounding the substance’ of Father and Son, which Sabellius tends to do.

Klaus von See seeks to establish the genesis of Hamdismdl. There are differences between von See and Ursula Dronke whose superlative edition of the Eddic Heroic Lays a peared after the Festschrifi, e.g. that the incitement scene in Ham&

is ancient @rode); the controversial st. 29 approximates to the sentiments of the Hi h Middle Ages (von See)-st. 29 might contain ancient elements, but if new, t%an the interpolator had a marked empathy with the author (Dronke); Hamdismdl are essentially unheroic or anti-heroic (von &)-the lay is heroic and

Gehlen: Bad Homburg, Berlin, Zurich, 1967. 328 pp. As.

ismdl derives P rom Gubfunarhvot whose author invented it (von See)-this scene