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 Introduction   Matière de Bretagne   Chansons de Geste   Miscellaneous Romances   Oriental Romances   Heroic Epic   Maere and Novellas   Romances of Antiquity   Index 

Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen Fragment A (1190/1210)
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Romances of Antiquity

Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen Fragment A (1190/1210)
Lübben, A.: Albrecht von Halberstadt, Metamorphosen, Fragment A. Germania 10 (1865). p. 237-245.

AvHMA-1:   Tereus, Procne and Philomela: Procne begs her husband Tereus to contrive the reunion with her sister Philomela. Tereus complies with her request and travels to the court of his wife’s father in Athens in order to ask his permission for Philomela’s visit.
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P 252.1 Two sisters