The question of when exactly Reinaert I was created between the end of the twelfth century and approximately 1270 has long been a key question in the research of Van den Vos Reynaerde. Reconstruction and critical text have occupied several generations of Reinaerdists with varying degrees of success. The long life of J. W. Muller, the Reinaerdist par excellence, is sufficient testimony to this. In his publications, Muller was primarily a philologist for whom an 85-page contribution to the Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal- en Letterkunde VII (1887) entitled De Taalvormen van Reinaert I en II was primarily intended to 'contribute to the determination of a pure, critical text of both works'. The objective of J. W. Muller has been a problem for himself and others in more than one respect. One can read in his Critical Commentary on Van den Vos Reinaerde what defense and plea is offered there... - [Author]

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