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    The Heliand (/ˈhɛliənd/) is an epic alliterative verse poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means "savior" in Old...
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    for Frisian, consistently preserves Germanic /j/ after a consonant, e.g. hēliand "savior" (Old High German: heilant, Old English: hǣlend, but Gothic: háiljands)...
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    where the word Muspille appears, and the 9th-century Old Saxon epic poem Heliand about the life of Christ, where various other forms of the word appear...
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  • Luke as a translation of the Greek οἰκουμένη), Old Saxon Middilgard (in Heliand), Old High German Mittilagart (in Muspilli), and Old English Middangeard...
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    Cædmon (section Heliand)
    Cædmon story is found in two Latin texts associated with the Old Saxon Heliand poem. These texts, the Praefatio (Preface) and Versus de Poeta (Lines about...
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    Huginn and Muninn "demand more explanation than is usually provided." The Heliand, an Old Saxon adaptation of the New Testament from the 9th century, differs...
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    most famous works are the Hildebrandslied and a heroic epic known as the Heliand. Middle High German starts in the 12th century; the key works include The...
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    Residència sense treball: autorització inicial "Inici - Heliand - Helicopters a Andorra". Heliand. Retrieved 2015-05-14. [1] Archived July 15, 2009, at...
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  • paraphrases and poetic renditions of stories from the life of Christ (e.g., the Heliand). The 16th century saw the rise of Protestantism and an explosion of translations...
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    Old English poem Beowulf (parallelled by mentions in the Old Saxon poem Heliand), and potential connections between Gefjon and Grendel's Mother and/or...
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    vernacular works in order to evangelise the Saxons more efficiently. The Heliand, a verse epic of the life of Christ in a Germanic setting, and Genesis...
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    found in three non-canonical gospels: by Clement of Alexandria, in the Heliand and the Gospel of Thomas. In the Gospel of Thomas, it is referred to as...
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  • manuscript in the Vatican Library, Palatinus Latinus 1447. It and the Heliand, a heroic poem based on the New Testament, a fragment of which is also...
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    Archived from the original on 6 December 2007. "Inici – Heliand – Helicopters a Andorra". Heliand. Retrieved 14 May 2015. [1] Archived 15 July 2009 at the...
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    1491–1500), Dream of the Rood (line 141) and Judith (line 15), Old Saxon Heliand (line 3339), and the Old Norse Lokasenna (stanza 8) as well as other Eddic...
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    where the word Muspille appears, and the 9th century Old Saxon epic poem Heliand about the life of Christ, where various other forms of the word appear...
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  • Gestió del Transport, Govern d'Andorra, 2009. "Inici - Heliand - Helicopters a Andorra". Heliand. Retrieved 2015-05-14. [1] Archived July 15, 2009, at...
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  • continental West Germanic verse; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo "body-raiment" = "body" (Heliand 3453 b), a compound which, in any case...
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    "battle-blade" refers to the sword, but also the simplex bill is used. Heliand (v. 4882) has billes biti "sword-bite". The Hildebrandslied has a parallelism...
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    other Old English poetry, the Old High German Muspilli, the Old Saxon Heliand, the Old Norse Poetic Edda, and many Middle English poems such as Piers...
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  • canonical gospels during Holy Week. The early ninth century Old Saxon poem Heliand, a rhyming harmonization of the gospels, portrays the dream of Pilate's...
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    Old High German, Eastern Frankish and Old Saxon (the alliterative poem 'Heliand'). The older mixed Vulgate/Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued...
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  • and sells the archangel Gabriel to Asmodeus. See Behaghel, Otto (1933). Heliand und Genesis p. 245. Not in Old English, an error made in de Vries 1962...
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  • the Epic—Epicizing Christianity. Nonnus. Paraphrasis and the Old-Saxon Heliand in a Comparative Perspective: A study in the Poetics of Acculturation."...
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    perform at the behest of Charlemagne. The only literary texts preserved are Heliand and the Old Saxon Genesis. "Altniederdeutsch" - Old Saxon; "Mittelniederdeutsch"...
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    (Codex Ebnerianus) London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula, A. VII. (Heliand Manuscript) London, British Library, Add MS 15350 (Cartulary of the Priory...
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    word kêr or gêr is attested since the 8th century (Lay of Hildebrand 37, Heliand 3089). Gar and cognates is a frequent element in Germanic names, both male...
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    Prayer Book Three fragments of the Old Saxon Genesis and one fragment of Heliand comprise the Palatinus Latinus 1447 Libri Carolini Vergilius Vaticanus...
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    English: beaggifa), a description also used for Jesus in the Old Saxon Heliand. The relationship with kings is also seen in the Swedish Svíagriss – an...
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  • 'poem, song'). The term appears in the Latin preface to the Old Saxon Heliand in the form vitteas, and its usage in line 709 of Geoffrey Chaucer's tale...
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