In our presentation we present the process of training a model to analyze emotion in Middle Dutch literature. We want this model for many different purposes within the realm of distant reading, for instance: discovering patterns within different genres, periods or places. There is also the concept of story arcs (originally invented by Kurt Vonnegut) which we might be able to proof for Middle Dutch using a language model. In the presentation we will explain more about the process of annotating a large corpus of Middle Dutch verses and the guidelines we used. We also tested the difficulty of the task with an interannotator agreement test. We can show you the results of the training process which show there is potential in distant reading emotions in medieval literature. ...