Excerpt from Selected Poems of Walter Von Der Vogelweide: The Minnesinger Done Into English Verse With an Introduction and Six Illustrations I have based these translations, in the main, on Pfeiffer's edition of Walter von der Vogelweide (revised by Karl Bartsch: Leipzig, Brockhaus, 6th. Ed. But several poems which he rejects as not genuine, notably the beautiful May Song, ' I have included on the authority of Lachmann, whose edition of the text remains the standard one, and who is followed by Simrock. For the Introduction and notes I have used, besides Pfeifi'er and Simrock, the very interesting monograph on Walter von der Vogelweide and his poems by Herr Wilmanns ('walther von der Vogelweide und seine Zeit.' Bonn, Scherer's History of German Literature' (translated by Mrs. Cony beare Oxford, Clar. Press, 1886) gives a very clear account of the literature of the period. For the general history of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.