vierde

Updated: May 24, 2025

Do was er widrumb in den berg und het sein lieb erkoren, des muoss der vierde babst Urban auch ewig sein verloren. A ballad which was sung in one Swiss district as late as the third decade of the nineteenth century gives the story of the knight and his temptress in fuller detail, though it knows as little of the episode of Elizabeth's love as it does of the tournament of song.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music