Versus de beati Blaithmaic: vita et fine
- Latin
- verse
Short metrical life on the martyrdom of Blathmac (d. 825), abbot of Iona, composed in Latin hexametera by Walahfrid Strabo (d. 849), Benedictine monk and scholar at the monastery of Reichenau. Blathmac was killed when Vikings attacked the island of Iona.
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Manuscripts
Language
- Latin
Form
verse (primary)
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] [tr.] Pörnbacher, Mechthild, Zwei Legenden: versus Strabi de beati Blaithmaic vita et fine; De vita et fine Mammae monachi, 2nd ed., Reichenauer Texte und Bilder, 7, Heidelberg: Mattes, 2012.
Text and German translation
[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 2, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884.
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297–301 (on the manuscript, see 264) direct link
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