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d. 1210 Germany
Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) was a German poet known mainly for his unfinished Tristan, a romance based on the Tristan of Thomas of Britain. Gottfried's poem was the main literary source of Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.
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Alas for the sight where, after dire grief, one sees a sadder sight with grief more dire!
People and nations could live in grace
He that never had sorrow of love never had joy of it either!
She is no worthy woman who forsakes her honour for her body, or her body for her honour.
A worthy man is bound to suffer malice and envy: a man grows in worth so long as he is envied.
Love is so blissful a thing, so blessed an endeavour, that apart from its teaching none attains worth or reputation.
Isolde my mistress, Isolde my beloved, in you my life, in you my death!
What a wretched sort of deception, when a man so lies to his friends that he dupes himself.
Swem nie von liebe leit geschach,
If one cannot overlook a hurt, many hurts will grow from it. It is a fatal style of living.
I have no idea what the other will be like, but this death suits me well! If my adorable Isolde were to go on being the death of me in this fashion I would woo death everlasting!
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