Diu Crône

Diu Crône (The Crown) is a Middle High German Arthurian poem of about 30,000 lines, dating from around the 1220s and attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin. The poem tells of the Knights of the Round Table's quest for the Grail but differs from the better-known "Percival" and "Galahad" versions of the narrative: it is Sir Gawain who achieves the sacred object.

Of the author little is known though it has been suggested that he was from Sankt Veit an der Glan, the capital city of the Duchy of Carinthia in his time.

A scholarly edition of the poem was made in 1852 by Gottlob Heinrich Friedrich Scholl (1802-1870).

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.