NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL, niChlirt fi'm roi'en-tal 1e.1150-e.12501. A German poet. born in Bavaria. Ile participated in the crusade against Damietta. Egypt (1215-19), and later resided at the Court 44 Frederick the Quarrel some in Vienna. Front Frederick he re ceived a fief near Melk and other valua ble gifts. He was the originator of a new form 44 the medi,eval lyric—the peasant lyric writ ten under the induenee of the Coml. In this he satirises the wealthy hut vulgar 1.easantry of Bavaria and Austria, with its display of finery. brawls. and its insolenee to heifers. For this ridicule his was bitterly disliked by the rustic versifier-, and. by the name Neid. hart Fuelts. 'was klumn as the enemy of the peasants as late as the sixteenth century. Neid. hart's work was an 11111414MM( one in the 1114411t of the Volkslied, upon whieh it continued for two centuries I,44 144:i44 a distinct in1141'44,414411. A manuscript collection of his poems, dating from the thirteenth century, was edited by I:towel:P. in vol. ii. of the Bei/rayi :lie Kenn/al.: der tt/h/eutscht,it Nnotehe 11:41tt ingen, 1532 I .
critical edition by Ilaupt (Leipzig. IS:10 is Neitlhart is C401441'41 with the Ands of Anastasills Urnn's Korn( AllerVerg'S) 1.1,11T bull. ry 1 1,450 3d ed. 1577 I, Consult also, Itielschowsky, Lebun und Dich fen non /4'4 I/44//th41/ (Berlin. 1891).
(ntd-g&rI) HILLS. Aloun Lain-. in India. See .N11,0131 Iliu.s. NEILGHERRY (or NILGIRI) NETTLE (Girardinia pahnata). A plant of the natural order UrLicac•ine, nearly allied to the true nettles, and possessing the stinging power coaWnuH in them. It is frequent on all the higher ranges of the Nilgiri hills. The natives obtain the fibre boiling the plant, to destroy its stinging properties. and then peeling the stalks. There are said to be two or three distinct forms or varieties of Neilgherry nettle fibre, and different specific names have been given the plants producing them. Its bark yields a lone, soft, and silky fibre, which is said to be one of the best fibres produced in India.