!!!Melker Marienlied

Melker Marienlied, first German Marienlied (song in praise of the 
Virgin Mary), probably composed between 1130 and 1160 in a monastery 
in Bavaria or Austria and handed down in a manuscript kept in the 
Abbey of Melk. The 14 verses consisting of 3 rhyming couplets each and 
the refrain "Sancta Maria" tell of the conception and birth of Jesus.

!Literature
Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters (lex.); G. M. 
Schaefer, Untersuchungen zur deutsch-sprachigen Marienlyrik, 1971.


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