Fairy Tales & Folklore

Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz

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  • 1905 first published
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Julius Wolff's Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz (1905) is a folklore and fairy tales novel.

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About Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz

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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Who wrote Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz?

Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz was written by Julius Wolff and first published in 1905.

What genre is Wild Huntsman - A Legend of the Hartz?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tales & Folklore.

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