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  1. Any of a group of German lyric poets of the
  2. 12th and 13th centuries who, in their songs,
  3. dealt mainly with the theme of courtly love
  4. without revealing the identity of the object
  5. of their affections. Minnesingers included
  6. Dietmar von Aist, Friedrich von Hausen,
  7. Heinrich von Morungen, Reinmar, and Walther
  8. von der Vogelweide.
  9.