SOURCE: Wailes, Stephen L. “Wolfram's Parzivâl and Der Stricker's Daniel von dem Blühenden Tal.” Colloquia Germanica 26 (1993): 299-315.

In the following essay, Wailes compares Daniel of the Blossoming Valley and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzivâl, exploring the influence of Wolfram's narrative on der Stricker's work, while pointing out the subversive qualities of Daniel in relation to the genre of Arthurian romance.

In the seventh book of Parzivâl, part of the army of Poydiconjunz, King of Gors, is a group of Britons who were formerly in the army of Artûs but were captured in battle:

si wâren Artûse zer muntâne Clûse ab gevangen, dâ man strîten sach: in eime sturme daz geschach. 

(382, 23-26)¹

This is the only reference to a mountainous region called Clûse in German literature earlier than Daniel. There is a later reference, in Tandareis und Flordibel by...