Otfried von Weissenburg (ôt`frēt fən vī`sənb
rkh), 9th-century German monk and poet; pupil of Rabanus Maurus Magnentius. His Liber Evangeliorum (863–71) is a counterpart in Old High German to the 9th-century Old Saxon Heliand Heliand [Old Saxon,=Savior], Old Saxon poem of 5,983 lines, a narrative of the life of Jesus in alliterative verse, written c.825.
..... Click the link for more information. . Otfried's gospel tales are versified in a meter derived from Latin, and he is the first German poet known to have used end rhymes.
rkh), 9th-century German monk and poet; pupil of Rabanus Maurus Magnentius. His Liber Evangeliorum (863–71) is a counterpart in Old High German to the 9th-century Old Saxon Heliand Heliand [Old Saxon,=Savior], Old Saxon poem of 5,983 lines, a narrative of the life of Jesus in alliterative verse, written c.825...... Click the link for more information. . Otfried's gospel tales are versified in a meter derived from Latin, and he is the first German poet known to have used end rhymes.
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