[1] Der jüngere Titurel survives in eleven complete manuscripts and about fifty fragments.
It is a cohesive continuation in over 6,300 lines of Wolfram von Eschenbach's fragmentary Titurel, and builds on the love story of Sigune and Schionatulander found in his Parzival.
It is a "saga with a worldwide sweep encompassing an enormous cast of characters [and a] message of Christian virtue.
"[1] Throughout the poem Albrecht pretends to be the famed Wolfram, and for a long time modern scholars thought the latter was the author of Der jüngere Titurel.
[1] The late medieval writer Ulrich Füetrer regarded Albrecht as one of the greatest poets of the German language.