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The Beginnings of German Literature: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Old High German

by Cyril Edwards
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781571132352
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Camden House (NY)
  • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY)
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  • Pages: 215
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / German

For the German-speaking peoples under the Carolingians (c. 750-950 AD), the dominant literary tongue was Latin, but during the period between the eighth and tenth centuries the dialects of Old High German in the south and Old Saxon in the north entered the realm of written languages. Cyril Edwards explores a number of instances in his book, beginning with a look at the recording and survival of the earliest continuous German texts, before turning to the specific examples. These are: the Wessobrunn Prayer, the earliest religious poem in German; the Merseburg Charms, pagan survivals in a Christian manuscript, summoning gods familiar from the Old Norse pantheon; the earliest traces of the love lyric; and the Ossian of the period, an ingenious forgery that was a cause c�l�bre in the nineteenth century, the Old High German Lullaby.

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