Wirnt von Grafenberg

Wirnt von Grafenberg was a Middle High German poet of the thirteenth century.

Grafenberg was a Bavarian nobleman who between 1202 and 1205 wrote an epic, entitled Wigalois, which describes the adventures of Gawain's son, the name being a corruption of Guinglain le Galois. Wirnt likely took material from French sources, and earlier portions of his work parallels the French romance Le bel inconnu of Renaud de Beaujeu, A prose version Wigoleis vom Rade was made toward the close of the fifteenth century and printed at Augsburg in 1493.