Muspilli
Sign in to saveMuspilli is an Old High German alliterative verse poem known in incomplete form (103 lines) from a ninth-century Bavarian manuscript. Its subject is the fate of the soul immediately after death and at the Last Judgment. Many aspects of the interpretation of the poem, including its title, remain controversial among scholars.
~29 min read
Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- Manuscript
- Metrical form
- Synopsis
- Etymology
- Critical reception
- Genetic approaches: sources and parallels
- Multiple or single authorship?
- Identifying the work's intended purpose
- Interpretation
- Theological basis
- Elias and the Antichrist
- Two opposing views?
- Elias's blood
- Legal aspects
- The lost ending
- ''Muspilli'' in literature, music and film
- Musical compositions
- Other arts
- Notes
- References
- Critical editions
- Bibliography
- External links
Muspilli is an Old High German alliterative verse poem known in incomplete form (103 lines) from a ninth-century Bavarian manuscript. Its subject is the fate of the soul immediately after death and at the Last Judgment. Many aspects of the interpretation of the poem, including its title, remain controversial among scholars.
thumb|right|Parts of the Muspilli at the bottom of a page of the manuscript once in the possession of Louis the German
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muspilli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.