Heliand, The
| Ninth-century Old Saxon alliterative poem on the life of Christ, based on Tatian's Diatessaron. The Heliand and fragments of a version of the story of Genesis are all that survive of Old Saxon poetic literature, both probably by the same learned poet, working at Fulda Abbey. |
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