War is murder, a massacre, a sea of suffering on all sides. This is the remarkable core idea of Willehalm. The epic poem about the defensive struggle of the Marquis of Provence, Willehalm, against Terramer, the ruler of the Islamic world, offers an unusual testament to humanity across religious boundaries from a time still deeply influenced by the ideology of the Crusades. The new translation by Horst Brunner places particular emphasis on good readability in contemporary prose while also providing a reliable access to the original wording. A detailed commentary explains all the details, and the afterword places the epic in its (literary) historical context.