German Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...chivalric poetry, such as the songs and lyrics of the minnesingers...were often based on French troubadour and trouvere sources (see troubadours ; trouveres ), while epics...forms became dominant: folk songs, fables, folktales, and...editors of folktales and folk songs, sometimes set to music by...