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| Introduction to the Translation | |
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| The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel | |
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| The Creator's spell, by which the whole world is held together, is taught to four heroes | |
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| Zachary see the Chieftain's angel in the shrine | |
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| John comes to the light of mankind | |
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| The All-Ruler's angel comes to Mary in Galileeland | |
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| The Chieftain of mankind is born in David's hill-fort | |
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| The Baby is brought to the Ruler's shrine | |
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| Three thanes from the East, led by the workings of fate, follow a star | |
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| The Three foreign warriors present their gifts to the Ruler's child | |
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| Herod orders his warrior-companions to behead all two-year old boys around Bethlehem | |
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| Mary and Joseph find the holy Child at the shrine | |
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| John announces Christ's coming to Middlegard | |
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| Christ the Chieftain is immersed in the Jordan by His loyal thane John | |
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| The Champion of mankind fights off the loathsome enemy | |
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| Christ the mighty Chieftan, chooses His first warrior-companions | |
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| The mighty Rescuer call twelve to be His men | |
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| The Chieftain's instructions on the mountain | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| the secret runes of the Lord's Prayer | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| The instructions on the mountain | |
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| The end of the instructions on the mountain | |
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| The marriage feast in the guest-hall at Fort Cana | |
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| At hill-fort Capharnaum, God's Child of Peace heals a houselhold lad of a commander of a hundred men | |
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| Christ the Rescuer raises the dead son of a widow outside Fort Naim | |
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| Christ commands the wind and the sea | |
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| The mighty Christ heals the cripple lowered through the roof by his warrior-companions | |
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| The story of the earl who sowed good seed | |
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| The explanation of the story | |
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| The story of the wheat and the weeds | |
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| The grim-hearted Jews of Galileeland attempt to throw Christ off a cliff | |
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| John the soothsayer is beheaded | |
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| With five loaves and two fishes the Chieftain of human beings feeds a great throng of earls | |
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| The mighty Child of God and good Peter walk on water | |
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| Christ the Ruler heals the daughter of a woman from a foreign clan | |
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| Peter, the best of thanes, is given power over Hel's gates | |
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| On the mountaintop the Son of God gives off bright light | |
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| Christ pays the king's head tax to an arrogant thane | |
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| Forgiving the young man with the great treasure-hoard | |
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| The story of the rich man and the beggar | |
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| The story of the workers who came late to the vineyard | |
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| Christ tells His loyal followers about His future torture and death the curing of the blind men outside Fort Jericho | |
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| The author explains the meaning of the cure of the blind | |
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| Christ enters Fort Jerusalem and foretells its fate | |
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| Christ praises the small gift to the shrine of the woman fated to poverty He advises thanes to pay the emperor's taxes | |
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| Christ the Champion protects the life-spirit of the woman caught in adultery | |
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| Dissension over Christ's teaching Martha and Mary send for Him Thomas accepts a warrior's fate | |
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| By decree of holy fate, God's Son is able to raise Lazarus from the grave | |
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| The clan-gathering of the Jewish warriors decides to kill Chist | |
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| The Chieftain of human clans teaches at the shrine | |
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| The coming of doomsay | |
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| Doomsday | |
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| The Passion begins Judas betrays his own Chieftan to southen people Christ washes the feet of His earls and thanes | |
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| The last mead-hall feast with the warrior-companions | |
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| The words of Christ give great powers to the bread and wine | |
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| Christ's deep fear before battle His last salute in the garden | |
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| Christ the Chieftain is capture Peter, the mighty swordsman, defends Him boldly | |
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| Peter denies he is a warrior-companion of Christ | |
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| Christ is brought before the assembly as a prisoner | |
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| Christ stands in chains before Pilate of Pontusland Judas, the deserter, hangs himself | |
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| Pilate, Caesar's thane, speaks with God's son | |
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| Warriors bring Christ in irons to King Herod arrogant earls ridicule God's Child of Peace | |
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| The Jewish warriors threaten Pilate with the ill-will of the emperor at Fort Rome | |
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| Caesar's thane puts the Best of all men into the hands of the Jews | |
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| The Chieftan is hanged on the criminal tree | |
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| The Chieftan of mankind dies by the criminal tree rope His spirit escapes | |
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| The body is removed from the gallows tree and buried in the earth Christ's spirit returns at night to the corpse Christ rises | |
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| The angel of the All-Ruler tells the women that the Chieftan is on His way to Galileeland | |
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| The grave-guards are bribed with jewels Peter, John, and Mary Magdalene come to the grave | |
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| Christ the Ruler joins the warrior-company of earls on the road to Emmaus Castle | |
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| Germanic Religious Customs in Adam of Bremen's History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen | |
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| Germanic Ties and Personal Loyalty | |
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| Magic in the Heliand | |
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| Symmetrical Structure in the Heliand | |
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| Select Bibliography | |