!!!Altdeutsche Genesis

Altdeutsche Genesis (Old German Genesis), in early Middle High German, 
anonymous poetic Bible rendition written around 1060/80 of 
approximately 6000 lines of rhyming couplets which were still 
relatively free as regards meter; tells biblical stories from the 
Creation to Joseph in Egypt, passed on along with the  Altdeutscher 
Exodus.

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Edition: K. Smits, 1972.

!Further reading
D. Kartschoke, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im 
fruehen Mittelalter, 1990.


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