Die historische Dietrichepik

The so-called '¬Ühistorical'¬" Dietrich epics, the thirteenth-century Middle High German heroic epics dealing with Dietrich von Bern (Verona), the corresponding saga of the Ostrogoth king Theoderic the Great, tells of Dietrich'¬"s warring conflicts with his uncle Ermanaric to gain the rule of Northern Italy. The monograph elucidates the text group (the flight epics ?Dietrich'¬"s Flight'¬" and '¬ÜThe Battle of Ravenna'¬" and the associated epic ?The Death of Alphart'¬") from the perspective of literary history.