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Abstract This article connects Wolfram’s portrayal of the striking black heathen queen Belakane with contemporary thoughts on the colour black in general and more specifically with concepts of dark skin and race at Wolfram’s time taking their biblical and theological foundations and semantics in regard. Reading Belakanes skin colour as an index and her story as a nod to the biblical Queen of Sheba and her reception history in the commentary tradition on the ›Song of Songs‹, I argue to integrate artistic and courtly, scholarly and theological perspectives to understand and appreciate the idiosyncrasy of Wolfram’s ›Parzival‹ fully.
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