Heinrich von dem Türlin: Diu Crône. Heidelberg, UB, cpg 374, 1r.

Diu Crône (The Crown) is a long Middle High German Arthurian poem attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin, of whom little is known. Middle High German (MHG German Mittelhochdeutsch) is the term used for the period in the history of the German language between 1050 and 1350 The Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the Legends that concern the Celtic and legendary History of Great Britain, especially those Usually dated to around the 1220s, it consists of about 30,000 lines. A scholarly edition was made in 1852 by Gottlob Heinrich Friedrich Scholl (1802-1870). The poem tells of the Knights of the Round Table's quest for the Holy Grail, but tells a very different story than traditional versions of the narrative, in which Sir Gawain, rather than the traditional Percival (or Galahad) achieves the sacred object. Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the literary cycle the Matter of Britain According to Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish plate or cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, said to possess miraculous powers Gawain (ˈgɔːwɪn or /gəˈweɪn/ also called Gwalchmei Gawan Gauvain Walewein etc Percival or Perceval is one of King Arthur 's legendary Knights of the Round Table. Sir Galahad is a knight of King Arthur 's Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail in Arthurian legend.

It has been suggested that the author was from Sankt Veit an der Glan, in his time capital city of the Duchy of Carinthia. Sankt Veit an der Glan ( Slovene: Šentvid ob Glini is a Town in the Austrian state of Carinthia. The Duchy of Carinthia (Herzogtum Kärnten Vojvodina Koroška was a Duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia.

Manuscripts

• Köln, Universitäts- und Stadtbibl. , Cod. 5 P 62
• Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ. 374
• Wien, Österr. Nationalbibl. , Cod. 2779
• Berlin, Staatsbibl. , mgf 923 Nr. 9
• Schwäbisch Hall, Stadtbibl. , ohne Sign. [missing]
• Kiel, Universitätsbibl. , Ms. K. B. 48l

References

• Marion E. Gibbs and Sidney M. Johnson (1997), Medieval German Literature pp. 358-361
• Elizabeth Andersen (1987) Heinrich von dem Tuerlin's Diu Crone and the Prose Lancelot: An Intertextual Study Arthurian Literature Volume 7
• Lewis Jillings (1980) Diu Crone of Heinrich von dem Türlein: The attempted emancipation of secular narrative (Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik ; Nr. 258)
• Neil Thomas (2002) Diu Crône and the Medieval Arthurian Cycle
• C. Cormeau (1977), Wigalois und Diu Crone
• H. Bleumer (1997), Die "Crône" Heinrichs von dem Türlin
• Reißenberger (1879), Zur Krone Heinrichs von dem Türlin
• Ernst Martin (1880), Zur Gralssage.