With this book, the little prince embarks on a time travel journey back to the German Middle Ages for the first time. The Viennese medievalist Prof. Dr. Helmut Birkhan has authentically and consistently translated the classic by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry into Middle High German of the 13th century. This makes the little prince, in a way, a contemporary of Wolfram von Eschenbach, Walther von der Vogelweide, and the poet of the Nibelungenlied. A skillful and perfect delight for philologists that brings us closer to the language of our ancestors and once again proves that the book has timeless relevance.