Annolied
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The Annolied ("Song of Anno") was composed in about 1100 in Early Middle High German rhyming couplets by a monk of Siegburg Abbey.
Dating
A principal point of reference for the dating is the mention of Mainz as a place of coronation. The German kings were usually crowned in Aachen, and the naming of Mainz in this connection can only refer to the coronation either of the counter-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden in 1077 or that of Emperor Henry V in 1106.Content
The Annolied was an encomium to Bishop Anno II of Cologne (d. 1075), later Saint Anno, who was the founder of Siegburg Abbey.The poem consists of three parts: the religious or spiritual history of the world and its salvation, from the creation to the time of Anno II; the secular history of the world up to the foundation of the German cities (including the theory of the world empires derived from the vision of the Book of Daniel); and finally the "Vita Annonis", or the biography of Bishop Anno II.
Parts of the Annolied were incorporated into the later Middle High German Kaiserchronik and the two works are often considered together.
No manuscript now exists, but the survival of the text was secured by Martin Opitz, who edited and published it in 1639 (reprinted in 1946).
See also
Medieval German literatureEditions
- Roediger, Max (ed.), 1895. Das Annolied; = MGH, Deutsche Chroniken I, 2. Berlin
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