"Under der linden" is a famous poem written by the medieval German lyric poet Walther von der Vogelweide. It is written in Middle High German.
Under the lime tree
On the heather,
Where we had shared a place of rest,
Still you may find there,
Lovely together,
Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed.
Beside the forest in the vale,
Tándaradéi,
Sweetly sang the nightingale.
I came to meet him
At the green:
There was my truelove come before.
Such was I greeted —
That I am glad for evermore.
Had he kisses? A thousand some:
Tándaradéi,
See how red my mouth's become.
There he had fashioned
For luxury
A bed from every kind of flower.
It sets to laughing
Delightedly
Whoever comes upon that bower;
By the roses well one may,
Tándaradéi,
Mark the spot my head once lay.
4. If any knew
He lay with me
for shame I'd die.
What did he do?
May none but he
Ever be sure of that — and I,
And one extremely tiny bird,
Tándaradéi,
Who will, I think, not say a word.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y70CMmWgwcA
Painting by Ferdinand Leeke
Song: The Swan (Le Cygne) by Aline Brewer,Leonard Slatkin - Philharmonia Orchestra
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfQcKdD1W0
Von den elben wirt entsehen vil manic man,
sô bin ich von grôzer liebe entsên
von der besten, die ie dehein man ze vriunt gewan.
wil aber sî der umbe mich vên
Und ze unstaten stên,
mac si danne rechen sich
und tuo, des ich si bite. sô vreut si sô sêre mich,
daz mîn lîp vor wunnen muoz zergên.
Mich enzündet ir vil liehter ougen schîn,
same daz viur den durren zunder tuot,
und ir vremeden krenket mir daz herze mîn
same daz wazzer die vil heize gluot.
Und ir hôher muot
und ir schoene und ir werdecheit
und daz wunder, daz man von ir tugenden seit,
daz wirt mir vil übel - oder lîhte guot?
Swenne ir liehten ougen sô verkêrent sich,
daz si mir aldur mîn herze sên,
swer dâ enzwischen danne gêt und irret mich,
dem muoze al sîn wunne gar zergên!
Ich muoz vor ir stên
unde warten der vröiden mîn
rehte alsô des tages diu kleinen vogellîn.
wenne sol mir iemer liep geschên?
Heinrich von Morungen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL141NyDgqA
One of the greatest English folk singer Anne Briggs, featuring some traditional and mostly her own songs on guitar and bouzouki, released back in 1971. Spring-like, fresh, light and cheerful.This is one of my favorite song of hers. ♡
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJotnmNQgE
"Cattle die, kinsmen die
and so we too must also die
I know one thing that never dies:
the reputation of the dead"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcpD0W5Vuko