Throughout the early 15th century, most bearers of the name lived in the Toggenburg, probably including one of the scribes of the Cgm 558.
The Ring is a poem of 9699 lines, preserved in a single manuscript, apparently an autograph of Wittenwiler's.
Wittenwiler explains that the red line marks "serious" material, while the green marks törpelleben (literally "village life", in the sense of "rusticity, peasantry, buffoonery"), but the actual division between "red" and "green" material is far from straightforward.
The protagonists are Bertschi Triefnas and Mätzli Rüerenzumph, two peasant lovers from Lappenhausen, a fictitious village in the Black Forest.
The wedding involves a "peasant tournament" and escalates into wild brawling, leading to a war between villages and the destruction of Lappenhausen.