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Tannhauser - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | TANNHAUSER, or Tanhuser, German Minnesinger of the 13th century, who lived for a time at the court of Frederick II., duke of Austria. |
 | | His adventurous life led him to be identified, in the popular imagination, with the knight Tannhauser who, after many wanderings, comes to the Venusberg, or Hdrselberg, near Eisenach. |
 | | Tannhauser departs in despair, and returns to the Venusberg. |
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