by Andreas Heusler · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783563410028
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«Der Heliand» is the Old Saxon epic poem by Andreas Heusler, published by Antigonos Verlag in paperback (208 pages, in German).
This edition recovers the Heliand, an epic poem in Old Saxon that adapts the gospel narrative to the style of Germanic heroic poetry: it tells the life of Jesus with devices proper to epic, to bring it to medieval Germanic culture.
The publisher Antigonos is dedicated to the reissue of historical works; this edition reproduces the 1921 text in full.
A reference work for scholars of medieval literature, Germanic philology and the history of Christianity.
Andreas Heusler was a Swiss philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. He was a Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Berlin and a renowned authority on early Germanic literature.
