Taylor, Edgar [Editor]; Austin, Sarah [Editor]: Lays of the minnesingers or German troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Illustr. by specimens of the contemporary lyric poetry of Provence and other parts of Europe ; With histor. and crit. notes, and engravings from the ms. of the minnesingers in the king's library at Paris, and from other sources (London, 1825)

MINNESINGERS.

COUNT GONRAD OF KIRCHBERG.

VJTrave Chuonrat von Kilchberg," (or Kirchberg,)
in Suabia, sung in the latter part of the 12th century.
The Manesse MS. contains several songs by him.

Meige ist komen in du lant,

Der uns ie von sorgen bant:

Kinder, kinder, sint gemant!

Wir sun schouwen wunne mauigvalde ;

Uf der liehten heide breit

Da hat er uns fur gespreit

Manig bluemelin gemeit,

Erst bezeiget in dem gruenen walde ;

Da hbrt man die nahtegal,

Uf dem bluenden rise,

Singen lobelichen schal, &c.

May, sweet May, again is come,
May that frees the land from gloom ;
Children, children, up, and see
All her stores of jollity !
On the laughing hedgerow's side
She hath spread her treasures wide ;