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He was known to his countrymen as the Nightingale, but his own sweet-sounding name of Bird's-meadow ( Vogelweide ) suggests even more directly the pure, true, flute-like strain which he poured into Europe’s choir of voices.
Laurie Magnus A General Sketch of European Literature in the Centuries of Romance (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1918) pp. 27-28. | ||