La imagen de Cristo en el Evangelienbuch de Ottfrid von Weissenburg
Miguel Ayerbe, investigador de este grupo, es el autor del artículo titulado «La imagen de Cristo en el ‘Evangelienbuch’ de Otfrid von Weissenburg: ¿Caudillo, Redentor o ambos a la vez? Análisis comparado con el ‘Heliand’ en sajón antiguo y otros textos germánicos», publicado en la revista Aevum (número 18/2, 2024, pp. 295-319).
El resumen del artículo, en inglés, es como sigue:
In a period of about forty years, two texts belonging to the literary genre of Biblical poetry, whose content deals with Christ’s life and teachings, appeared in German medieval literature of the 9th century: on the one hand, Otfrid von Weissenburg’s Evangelienbuch, in Old High German, and, on the other, the anonymous Heliand, written in Old Saxon. The latter work has been studied very frequently due to the narrative tone used to talk about Christ’s works and teachings, as well as his relationship with his disciples, and their attitude, which recalls the type of heroic discourse typical of heroic Germanic poetry of the oral tradition beyond the religious sphere. In the case of the Evangelienbuch there are also traits of a narrative discourse characteristic of a type of diction typical of heroic Germanic poetry; however, little attention is paid to it, or even the presence of this kind of discourse is categorically denied. This reveals a clear imbalance in the consideration of both works, which does not do justice to the reality of the Evangelienbuch, in particular. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence that a heroic narrative tone can also be found in the latter work, not only very similar to that used by the autor of the Heliand, but also to that of other ancient Germanic texts in German, English and Norse, outside the religious sphere, such as the Hildebrandslied, Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Battle of Brunnanburh and the Sörla saga sterka.
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