manner, that in my mind they assumed the proportions of never-to-be-forgotten dramas, of grand and mysterious poems; and the ingenious stories invented by the poets which my mother told me in the evening, had none of the flavor, none of the breadth or vigor of the peasant woman's ...
and writing them love letters and poems. The northern German poetHeinrich von Veldekeproduced theEneide(c.1170; written in an intermediatedialectthat contained elements of both Low and High German), a “modern” version of Virgil’sAeneidadapted from the anonymous Old FrenchRoman d’Énéas. ...