THE PRINCESS COMES to hear of “Dietrich”'s extraordinary gesture of generosity from those who witnessed it:

This is a doubling of the structural element (S.-C. §A.2) that had previously inspired her decision to suggest that her father hold his Pentecost banquet; again, the courtiers play the role of Knower, when they report to her of “Dietrich”'s generosity. That it is for the sake of his excellent qualities that she begins to “love” him, and not for any personal or superficial reason, is twice alluded to in the text, when the narrator emphasizes that the object of her affection is an excellent and capable (tuginthaftin, lines 1918, 1933) man. It should be remembered, however, that the word minne (love), can more generally mean to hold someone in fond or admiring regard and does not always include a carnal component — one can feel minne toward friends or even God — lest one over-interpret exactly what the narrator is implying here. In this context, too, the word is ambiguous.