Love greeting

A love greeting is an old literary miniature, a rhyming love letter that you preferably sang or had sung to a loved one or sent to her.

There are already traditions from the Middle Ages or even before (see Buhlenlieder ). Has influenced Arnaut de Maroill the development of German love greeting towards a love letter with eight-syllable rhyming pair. The love greeting with Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Lichtenstein finds its poetic climax in Middle High German poetry . The folk song that is still known today, comes a bird flew, refers to the old custom of the greeting of love.