A History of German Literature Tr From the 3d German Ed By Mrs Fcconybeare
A History of German Literature Tr From the 3d German Ed By Mrs Fcconybeare
Wilhelm Scherer
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223 Whilst in the sphere of language South Germany triumphed over the North, in the province of law, on the supremacy contrary, the South was indebted to the North, of Worth- About the year 1220 the Saxon law was reduced German to writing under the name of the ' Sachsenspiegel ' by the sheriff, Eike von Repkow, from the neighbourhood of Magdeburg; this record furnished in 1275 the foun- The 'Sach- dation for the ' Schwabenspiegel, ' a South German senspiegei' code, which claimed to represent th...e common law, schwaben- of Germany, and did in fact obtain over a wide spiegel. ' area. But while the beneficial effects of a flourishing literature were thus gradually revealing themselves, the literature itself, namely Middle High-German poetry, was becoming extinct. D ecay O f In the course of the thirteenth century we have had Middle High- to note a decline in all the branches of literature German in the popular epic, in the chivalrous epic, in the Min- nesang, and in the Didactic poem; about 1225 Walther von der Vogelweide perceived clearly the change which had set in; by 1300 the revolution was virtually accomplished.
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