1. The first conference in this problem area was held in 1967. See Bruce A. Beatie, “Computer Study of Medieval German Poetry: a Conference Report,”Computers and the Humanities 2(1967), 65–70. The next such conference was held in Mannheim in 1971. See Roy A. Boggs, “Computer-aided Studies of Middle High German Texts; A Report on the Mannheim Symposium,”Computers and the Humanities 6(1972), 157–159.
2. To be published this year by Athenäum of Frankfurt in the new series ofIndices zur deutschen Literatur.
3. Soon to be published in theIndices zur deutschen Literatur, this volume was described as a “lemmatized and classifying index.”
4. Matthias Lexer,Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1872–1878.
5. Sincedirect discourse is considered to be characteristic of oral formulaic literature (see Albert Lord,The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), Plate's discovery for this poet would suggest further study about variations among prose and verse works from a variety of traditions.