The Wild Huntsman

A Legend of the Hartz

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Julius Wolff, the great singer of poetic myth and weird folk-tale, was the youngest and last of the German romantic poets. In an ever-changing variety of story and spirit, constant only in a fervent and lofty patriotism, he wrote Tannhäuser, The Ratcatcher of Hamelin, The Wild Huntsman, The Lorelei, The Flying Dutchman, Till Eulenspiegel Redivivus, and The Pappenheimer. The Wild Huntsman has far surpassed all Wolff's other poems in popularity. He made his Wild Huntsman a vivid reality in a historical setting of the waning Middle Ages. His weird story and the mystery and horror of Woden's spectral host he interwove with an idyll of woodland love, the gossip of peasants, dainty tales of the old mythology, and some of the finest nature passages in German poetry. (Summary from the translator's note, extracted by Fritz)

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At Woden"s Mark 12:09 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
Spring 14:12 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Mountain Castle 26:46 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
Forest Rest 21:23 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Stag Hunt 32:29 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Next Shot 21:23 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Abbot of Walkenrieden 22:40 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
Wulfhilde and Waldtraut 17:06 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Poacher 12:26 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Boar Hunt 9:29 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Death of Hackelberend 18:35 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
To the Grave 11:36 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Storming of the Castle 20:35 Gelesen von Phil Schempf
The Wild Chase 14:13 Gelesen von Phil Schempf