Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the 'Tristran of Thomas' (Penguin Classics)
Gottfried von Strassburg was probably a member of the urban patriciate in Strassburg.  Judging from his writing he appears to have been a cultured man, well read in Latin, French and German; a lover of music and hunting, and a skilled linguistic stylist.  He chose Thomas as his source for Tristan, and completed five-sixths of the work.      A.T. Hatto has translated The Niebelungenlied and Eschenbach's Parzival for Penguin Classics.