Helwig's Märe vom heiligen kreuz
Subtitle: nach der einzigen handschrift zum ersten male
By: hrsg. von Paul Heymann.
Contributors: Paul Heymann (Editor)
Series: Palaestra; 75
Publisher: Mayer & Müller
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: ger
Number of pages: 170
Genres: Poetry
Other titles: Märe vom heiligen kreuz.
Description: Maere vom Heiligen Kreuz, a Middle High German poem of roughly a thousand lines, the author of which gives his name as Helwig (‘von Waldirstet Helwic’). He continues the history of the Holy Cross beyond the Crucifixion. Helwig appears to have been a Thuringian, and wrote his poem c.1350.
Notes: "Von dieser arbeit sind die einleitung und die kapp. I-II als Berliner dissertation erschienen am 29 april, 1908."