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The Beginnings Of German Literature » (Bilingual)

Authors: Cyril Edwards
ISBN-13: 9781571132352, ISBN-10: 157113235X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: Bilingual

A study of the breakthrough of the Germanic vernacular dialects into the realm of written language between the eighth and tenth centuries.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	List of Abbreviations and Works Frequently Cited
	Introduction: The Recording and Survival of the Earliest German Texts	1
1	Tohu wabohu: The Wessobrunner Gebet and Its Analogues	11
2	Ego bonefacius scripsi? More Oblique Approaches to the Wessobrunn Prayer	41
3	"Unlucky Zeal": The Hildebrandslied and the Muspilli under the Acid	65
4	The Merseburg Charms: Contexts and Function	79
5	The Merseburg Charms: Conjectures	97
6	The Beginnings of the German Lyric	119
7	The Strange Case of the Old High German Lullaby	143
	Bibliography	167
	Index	189