Alphart

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Alphart is the hero of Alpharts Tod much the finest poem of the entire cycle of the Heldenbuch and worthy of a place beside the best popular poetry of the Middle High German epoch.

Alphart, a young hero in Dietrich's army fighting the Battle of Ravenna, goes out to fight single-handed with Witege and Heime, who had deserted to Ermenrich, and he falls, not in fair battle, but by the treachery of Witege whose life he had spared.