Notker Labeo


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Notker Labeo

Notker Labeo (nōtˈkər) (läˈbēō), c.950–1022, German monk, also known as Teŭtonĭcus. He was a teacher at St. Gall. Notker translated into Old High German Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy, Capella's Marriage of Mercury and Philology, Pope Gregory I's Morals, and Aristotle's Categories. He was one of the founders of German vernacular literature.
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With only one exception, the Old High German treatise of Notker Labeo (p.
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Both German and English translations of classical authors like those of Notker Labeo of St Gall who produced German versions of Boethius and Terence, as well as Aethwold's translation of the Rule of St Benedict, and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Manual alternating Latin with English, serve to illustrate this point.
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