[41] Piper, Die geistliche Dichtung des Mittelalters (KDNL. vol. 3), ii.
pp. 71, 72.

[42] See ed. Bartsch (KDNL. vol. 6), pp. 26, 27.

[43] Piper, H.E. ii. p. 222.

[44] See ed. Bartsch, l. 15067, p. 440.

[45] See ed. by Hagen in Ged. d. Mittel. i. p. 46, l. 4462 seq.

[46] Das Nibelungenlied, ed. Friedr. Zarncke, Leipz. 1894, p. 62, v. 3.

[47] Piper, Spielm., p. 30.

[48] Piper, Wolfr. v. Eschenbach, i. p. 208; cf. Dante's Paradiso, cant.
29, ll. 100-102.




CHAPTER II.

FROM THE PORTUGUESE DISCOVERIES TO THE TIME OF SIR WILLIAM JONES.

Travels to India and Persia--Olearius and his Work--Progress
of Persian Studies--Roger--India's Language and Literature remain
unknown--Oriental Influence in German Literature.