Lanzelet

Lanzelet is an enigmatic piece of Arthurian literature. Composed soon after 1194, it is the second German Arthurian romance. It was based on a French model, now lost, which could have been part of an "old" hardly accessible Arthurian tradition, so that Lanzelet is a key text in the early history of Arthurian romance. In addition, however, its fascinating literary facture means that a text which was long undervalued is now a central element in Arthurian research. The student edition provides the text and a translation, together with the abridged critical apparatus of the "large" new edition.

Florian Kragl, Universität Wien, Österreich.

"[...] Kragl's work will surely remain the definitve treatment of Ulrich's Lanzelet for decades to come. The enormity of Kragl's vehicle—the comprehensive scope of the various registers, indices, commentaries, critical apparatuses, transcriptions, etc.—represents a most remarkable forum (indeed, one of which most philologists can only dream) for virtually all of the innumerable minutiae attendant to the Lanzelet text."
Michael Resler in: Speculum April 2009

"Für den Unterrichtsbetrieb ist es auf jeden Fall sehr erfreulich, endlich wieder eine gute Ausgabe des Lanzelet zur Verfügung zu haben."
Gudrun Felder in: Germanistik 3-4/2009

"[...] ces deux gros volumes sont remarquables à bien des égards et combleront tous les médiévistes justement inéressés par ce Lanzelet si difficile à saisir, à situer et à analyser, mais aussi, et sans doute de ce fait, si fascinant."
Jean-Marc Pastré in: Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale