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Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. 'squint-eyed') (c. 808 – 18 August 849), was a Frankish monk and theological writer. Walafrid Strabo's works are theological, historical and poetical. There is an exposition of the first 20 psalms (published by Pez. in Thes.
Walafrid Strabo was born about 805 in Swabia. He was educated at Reichenau Abbey, where he had for his teachers Tatto and Wetti, to whose visions he devotes one of his poems. Then he went on to the monastery of Fulda, where he studied for some time under Rabanus Maurus before returning to Reichenau, of which monastery he was made abbot in 838.
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Apr 15, 2024 · Walafrid Strabo (born c. 808, Swabia—died Aug. 18, 849, Reichenau, Franconia [now in Germany]) was a Benedictine abbot, theologian, and poet whose Latin writings were the principal exemplar of German Carolingian culture. Walafrid received a liberal education at the abbey of Reichenau on Lake Constance. After further studies under the ...
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Aug 13, 2020 · The Gourd. Walafrid Strabo (809-849) wrote Hortulus (My Little Garden ), a long Latin poem (440 lines), about his love of gardening and all the plants that he grew at Reichenau Abbey. This discussion of the gourd plant (Latin Cucurbita) is an extract, representing lines 99-151 of the poem. The gourd too aspires to grow high from a humble beginning.
Walafrid Strabo – Poem to Empress Judith (ca. 834–835) [ed. Ernst Dümmler, MGH, PLAC, 2 (Berlin, 1884), 379–80, no. 24.] Translated by • Courtney M. Booker University of British Columbia (cbooker@interchange.ubc.ca) –November, 2012– [To be used for teaching purposes only. Please do not cite or reproduce without permission]
Title: Hortulus or the Little Garden: A Ninth Century Poem. Engraver: Cuts on wood by Elinor Lambert (British, active early 20th century) , 1923. Author: Walafrid Strabo (Swabia ca. 807–849 Germany (Reichenau, Franconia)) Translator: Translated from Latin by Richard Stanton Lambert (British, Kingston upon Thames 1894–1981)
In Walafrid Strabo. …826, Walafrid set to verse Visio Wettini (“The Vision of Wettin”), recording a mystical experience described by his first tutor. With its poetic images of hell, purgatory, and paradise, Visio Wettini anticipated Dante’s Divine Comedy. Later Walafrid wrote his most important poem, Liber de cultura hortorum (“Book ...
