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Vita sancti Galli metrica
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A metrical version of Walahfrid Strabo’s Life of St Gall(us), founder of the abbey of St. Gall. While Walahfrid announced such a text in his prose Life, it seems that he did not live to carry out the plan, at least if one follows Walter Berschin in ruling out his authorship of the poem, except perhaps (part of) the prologue, on stylistic grounds. The prologue is addressed to Gozbert the Younger, monk of St. Gall. BHL 3253.
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[ed.] Dümmler, Ernst [ed.], Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 2, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1884.
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428–473
Secondary sources (select)
Berschin, Walter, “Die karolingische Vita S. Galli metrica (BHL Nr. 3253), Werk eines Iren für St. Gallen?”, Revue Bénédictine 117 (2007): 9–30.
