German Romance III: Iwein, or The Knight with the Lion

First English translation of Iwein [B], a German adaptation of Chrétien's famous Yvain . Iwein , or The Knight with the Lion , is a free Middle High German adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes' Old French Arthurian romance, Yvain . Written c.1200 by a Swabian knight, Hartmann von Aue, Iwein chartsthe development towards maturity of a young knight who falls into error, neglecting his hard-won wife by devoting himself excessively to chivalric pursuits. This parallel-text edition, offering the first En