Georgslied (Song of St. George) ca.800-870 is an incomplete Old High German poem about the life of Saint George. It is by a scribe named "Wisolf". The spelling is poor and Wislof breaks off the poem with "nequeo Vuisolf" ("I am unable"). It was intended for singing. Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... For alternate uses, see Saint George (disambiguation) Saint George (c. ...
It may date to 896 at the Abbey of Saint George on the Reichenau or perhaps the monastery Pruem. It is found in a manuscript which also contains Otfrid of Weissenburg's (Otfrid von Weißenburg) Evangelienbuch. Alternate uses: Reichenau island Reichenau is a village in the municipality of Tamins in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, where the two Rhine tributaries Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein meet. ...
Georgslied (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Georgslied) from Wikisource (in German)
John Bostock, A Handbook of Old High German, 1976 ISBN 0198153929
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Das Georgslied ist eine althochdeutsche Dichtung, entstanden gegen Ende des 9.
Vielleicht reicht das Georgslied bis zum Ende des 9.
Bei der Einordnung des Georgslieds in die allgemeinen Zusammenhänge der frühmittelalterlichen Georgsverehrung ist sich die (historische und germanistische) Mediävistik nicht einig.
The "Colours of Saint George" (more commonly called St George's Cross) is a white flag with a red cross, frequently borne by entities over which he is patron (e.g.
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