Heliand
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17 sectionsContents
- Historical context
- Manuscripts
- Authorship and relation to Old Saxon Genesis
- Controversies
- Authorship
- German Christianity
- Use by Luther
- Extra-canonical origins
- Sample passages
- Editions and translations
- Editions
- Translations
- Studies
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|Heliand excerpt from the German Historical Museum
The Heliand () is an epic alliterative verse poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means "savior" in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch Heiland meaning "savior"), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic epic. Heliand is the largest known work of written Old Saxon.