Vulcan Forging a Helmet

[from] the Eneas Romance of Heinrich Von  Veldeke.  Artist unknown.

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Von Veldeke (roughly 1150 – 1185) is said to be the first writer in the Low Countries known by name to have written in a European language other than Latin.  His Eneas Romance is loosely derived from Virgil’s Aeneid.

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