I.

I. Biterolf und Dietleib

The mid-twelfth hundred anonymous German epic Biterolf und Dietleib divides the European continent into couple hostile spheres: a southeastern sphere center around the east European, "Hunnish" court of Etzel and a northwestern sphere dominated by dint of the Rhenish court at Worms. The text's representation of a pan-European war has generated considerable interpretive speculation among medieval Germanists. Is it a completely literary construction, or is it meant to ruminate or refract contemporary geographic/political constellations, an east/west European

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