Heliand

E132139

Heliand is a 9th-century Old Saxon epic poem that retells the life of Jesus in the style of a Germanic heroic saga.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Heliand canonical 2
Altsächsische Genesis 1
Old Saxon Genesis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian poem ⓘ
Old Saxon poem ⓘ
biblical epic ⓘ
epic poem ⓘ
medieval literature work ⓘ
attributedTo Saxon poet ⓘ
author unknown ⓘ
basedOn New Testament Gospels ⓘ
linked to: Gospels

Vulgate Bible ⓘ
linked to: Vulgate
centuryOfWork 9th century ⓘ
commissionedBy Emperor Louis the Pious ⓘ
containsCharacter Jesus ⓘ
linked to: Jesus Christ

John the Baptist ⓘ
Mary ⓘ
Peter ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Frankish Empire ⓘ
culturalContext Carolingian Renaissance ⓘ
dateOfComposition 9th century ⓘ
genre biblical paraphrase ⓘ
epic poetry ⓘ
religious poetry ⓘ
hasTranslation Dutch ⓘ
English ⓘ
Modern German ⓘ
influenced Middle High German religious poetry ⓘ
studies of Germanic Christianity ⓘ
influencedBy Germanic heroic poetry ⓘ
oral epic tradition ⓘ
language Old Saxon ⓘ
literaryForm alliterative verse ⓘ
literaryMovement Old Saxon literature ⓘ
mainSubject Gospels ⓘ
life of Jesus ⓘ
manuscriptTradition London manuscript ⓘ
Munich manuscript ⓘ
meter alliterative long line ⓘ
narrativeStyle Germanic heroic saga ⓘ
originalLanguage Old Saxon ⓘ
purpose Christianization of the Saxons ⓘ
to present the Gospel in a form accessible to Saxons ⓘ
religion Christianity ⓘ
religiousTradition Latin Christianity ⓘ
script Carolingian minuscule ⓘ
setting transposed into early medieval Saxon-Germanic world ⓘ
studiedInDiscipline Germanic philology ⓘ
medieval studies ⓘ
theology ⓘ
survivesAs incomplete text ⓘ
titleMeaning Saviour ⓘ
linked to: Savior

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Saxon → hasText → Heliand ⓘ
Old Saxon → hasText → Old Saxon Genesis ⓘ
linked to: Heliand
Altsächsisch → notableWork → Heliand ⓘ
Altsächsisch → notableWork → Altsächsische Genesis ⓘ
linked to: Heliand