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Heroes") and the " Nibelungcn-Licd" (" Song of the Nibelungen "), which are 

 still popular in Germany, were composed at the beginning of the thirteenth 

 century : the first, it is said, by Wolfram of Eschenbach (Fig. 337), Henry of 

 Ofterdingen, and "Wulther Vogelweide; the second by Conrad of Wart /burg, 



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or by Nicholas Klingsor of Hungary ; but this statement is not based upon 

 very trustworthy evidence. The end of this famous school of poetry 

 coincides with the fall of the house of Swabia (1254). 



Italy did not as yet possess a national literature or language, for in the 



