In the epic Nibelingenlied one man tells another, "she is to me as my soul and as my body, and I will do anything to deserve that she become my wife,"" (Anderson and Zinsser, 333). ... Of course the husband was never supposed to find out about his wife's love of another man, but in nearly all of the poems and lais the beloved was a married woman and the lover a married man. ... The idea of not being in love with the person but of being "in love with love- can certainly be applied to a lot of the poems and feelings present in the 13th through 17th centuries. ...

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