The New International Encyclopædia/Haimonskinder
HAIMONSKINDER, hī'mṓns-kĭn'dẽr. A
popular German romance which appeared at
Cologne in 1604 under the title Ein schöne und
lüstige Histori von den vier Heymonskindern.
It was largely an adaptation of a version current
in the Netherlands and based on a French
original. A previous German adaptation (1535) was
based directly on the prose romance Les quatre
fils Aymon. See .