Willehalm

War is mort, a carnage, a sea of suffering on all sides. This is the remarkable core idea of Willehalm. The verse epic about the Margrave of Provence, Willehalm's defensive struggle against Terramer, the ruler of the Islamic world, offers an unusual testimony of humanity across religious boundaries from a time that is still completely under the spell of the Crusade ideology. Horst Brunner's new translation attaches particular importance to good readability in contemporary prose and at the same time provides reliable access to the original text. An extensive commentary explains all the details, and the epilogue embeds the epic in its (literary) historical context.