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Old High German Lullaby
The discovery of an Old High German lullaby (') was announced in 1859 by Georg Zappert (1806–1859) of Vienna, a private scholar and collector of medieval literature. Ostensibly a 10th-century poem full of surviving pre-Christian mythology, it is considered a literary forgery of Zappert's by many experts who have commented on it. The lullaby According to Zappert, in 1852 he noted some words in Old High German on a strip of parchment glued to the spine of a 15th-century paper manuscript (Hofbibliothek Codex Suppl. No. 1668). Zappert says he purchased the manuscript in August 1858, as the recovering of the strip necessitated the destruction of the manuscript binding. Zappert reports that, once the strip was recovered, it turned out it bore an Old High German poem, apparently a lullaby, in five lines, in a hand of the 9th or 10th century: # ' # ' # ' #' # ' Zappert reads this as seven alliterating verses, as follows: #' #' #' #' #' #' #' translated: "(1) ''Docke'', sleep sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zappert Schlummerlied
Georg Zappert (7 December 1806 in Óbuda – 23 November 1859 in Vienna) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian historian and archaeologist. The son of well-to-do parents, Zappert was educated at the Pest gymnasium and the University of Vienna. He began the study of medicine, but relinquished it after renouncing Judaism for Roman Catholicism in 1829, then taking up theology. This too he was forced to abandon in the second year, owing to deafness caused by a severe illness; and after this disappointment, which he felt keenly, he devoted himself to what became his life work, namely, the study of the Middle Ages. He led a retired life in Vienna. He foretold the time of his death to the minute three days before it occurred; there have been in his family several cases of similar premonition. The Imperial Academy of Sciences elected him corresponding member on July 28, 1851. Zappert published: "Gravure en Bois du XII. Siècle" (Vienna, 1837 et seq.); "Vita B. Petri Acotanti" (ib. 1839) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
