Tannhäuser, the Pagan knight, from the Codex Manesse (about 1300) - Unknown Artist
"VENUS:
Then go, madman, go!
Traitor, see, I am not holding you!
I set you free! Away!
What you desire shall be your doom!
Fly to the cold world of men,
from whose feeble, cheerless fancies
we Gods of joy fled
into the warming depths of the earth's womb.
Go then, poor fool! Seek there
the happiness you never shall find!
Soon the arrogance in your heart will weaken,
and I shall see you return humbled,
remorseful, crestfallen, to seek me out,
pleading for the magic of my might!"
-Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg
Then go, madman, go!
Traitor, see, I am not holding you!
I set you free! Away!
What you desire shall be your doom!
Fly to the cold world of men,
from whose feeble, cheerless fancies
we Gods of joy fled
into the warming depths of the earth's womb.
Go then, poor fool! Seek there
the happiness you never shall find!
Soon the arrogance in your heart will weaken,
and I shall see you return humbled,
remorseful, crestfallen, to seek me out,
pleading for the magic of my might!"
-Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg
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| Tannhäuser, the Pagan knight, from the Codex Manesse (about 1300) - Unknown Artist. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Manesse_Tannh%C3%A4user.jpg
https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0523
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