For the Middle Ages Amicus and Amelius were the epitome of friendship. Narratives of the two friends however not only touch upon medieval ideals of friendship but also on conceptions of loyality within the Christian faith as well as on the various links between friendship and kinship. Lena Oetjens offers an edition of the three major Latin texts in this tradition as well as translations in German. The commentary investigates the narratives’ entanglement with textual traditions usually associated with Roland, Charlemagne and the holy Jacobus. In addition, the study traces multilingual aspects of the texts’ reception until Konrad`s ›Engelhart‹.