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WARTBURG, THE , a castle near Eisenach in the grand-duchy of Saxe- Weimar
original
home of a boisterous court to which minstrels and " wandering folk " of all descriptions streamed;l and it was here that in 1207 took place the minstrels' contest (Sdngerkrieg) immortalized in Wagner's Tannhauser. Some years later it became the home of the saintly Elizabeth of Hungary
marriage
From this time the castle was allowed gradually to decay. It was restored in the 18th century in the questionable taste of r Walther von der Vogelweide (ed. F. Pfeiffer r88o, No. 99) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (Parzival vi. 526 and Willehalm 417, 26) both refer to the noise and constant crush of crowds passing in and out at the Wartburg " night and day." 2 Wagner, with a poet's licence, has placed the Sdngerkrieg during Elizabeth's residence at the Wartburg.drainage basin is 17,400 sq. m. WART-HOG, the designation of certain hideous African wild swine (see SWINE), characterized by the presence of large warty protuberances on the face, the large size of the tusks in both sexes, especially the upper pair, which are larger and stouter than the lower ones and are not worn at their summits, and the complexity and great
young
elevation
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