Walther Von Der Vogelweide: A Complete Reference Work Head-Word and Rhyme-Word Concordances to His Poetry

The need for a lexicographic tool to facilitate access to Walther’s poetry was recognized even prior to 1844, when C. August Hornig published his Glossarium zu den Gedichten Walthers von der Vogelweide. Although based on Lachmann’s 1827 edition, Hornig’s work was important enough to warrant a reprint in 1979. The rhyme-word index published with the Glossarium listed rhyming words with their verse locations; but the researcher interested in considering the contexts in which these rhymes were used needed to consult separate locations in Walther’s poetry for each occurrence. The rhyme-word concordance in this volume is, to our knowledge, the first reference work to offer rhyming words of Middle High German poetry in a complete verse context. A supplementary alphabetical list of all rhyme-words and their frequencies summarizes and provides a convenient overview of Walther’s rhyming techniques.