The first monument of real Christianity among the Saxons was the
Heliand, an epic on the life of Christ in Old Saxon alliterative
verse, dating from about 830. The original work attempted to make
the newly imposed Christian religion intelligible to the warlike
Saxons. The Heliand, extant in four manuscripts, and the
fragmentary Old Saxon Genesis are all that remain of Old Saxon
poetry. This poetic harmony of the Gospels employs modern English
alliterative verse couplets, in a complex structure of 75 cantos,
to generate a vigorous retelling of the story of the Christ as an
epic tale reminiscent of Arthurian legends.
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