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Old High German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (136 words) |
 | 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. |
| Old High German was influenced strongly by Latin in vocabulary. |
| Typical for the Old High German Language are the vowel endings, as in Latin. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: German Literature (12373 words) |
| During the ninth and tenth centuries German poetry fell into neglect; at the courts of the Saxon (919-1024) and Franconian emperors (1024-1125) and in the monasteries the Latin language was almost exclusively cultivated, and thus a body of Latin poetry arose, of which the tenth-century "Waltharius" (Waltharilied) of Ekkehard, a monk of St. Gall (d. |
| The "Waltharilied" relates an old Burgundian saga and is thoroughly German in spirit, while the "Ecbasis" is the oldest medieval beast epic that we possess. |
| Its effect on the German language was enormous; the dialect in which it is written, a Middle German dialect used in the chancery of Upper Saxony, became gradually the norm for both Protestant and Catholic writers, and is thus the basis of the modern literary German. |
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