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Minstrels. The earliest lyric poets of Germany were so called, because the subject of their lyrics was minne-sang (love-ditty). These poets lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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