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Walafrid,
alternatively spelt Walahfrid,
nicknamed Strabo (or Strabus, i.e. "squint-e****") (c. 808 – 18
August 849), was an
Alemannic Benedictine monk...
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Walafrid Strabo, who was the
earliest editor of Thegan's
Gesta and
divided it into chapters, just as he did with Einhard's Vita Karoli.
Walafrid also...
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about 833–884 by
Walafrid Strabo, who also
revised a book of the
miracles of the saint.
Other works ascribed to
Walafrid tell of
Saint Gall in prose...
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during the
Carolingian Empire, it was
cultivated in
monastery gardens.
Walafrid Strabo described it in his poem
Hortulus as
having a
sweet scent and being...
- eggs, and fish were part of a monk's
ordinary diet.
Benedictine monk
Walafrid Strabo commented, "Some salt, bread, l****s, fish and wine; that is our...
- An
alternative suggestion proposes derivation from *alah "sanctuary".
Walafrid Strabo in the
ninth century remarked, in
discussing the
people of Switzerland...
- old
tradition linked the book to Pope
Gelasius I,
apparently based on
Walafrid Strabo's
ascription of what is
evidently this book to the 5th-century pope...
- (modern
Spain and Portugal) as late as the 8th century.
Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that
Gothic was
still spoken in the
lower Danube area, in...
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community of the
abbey produced several influential poets and authors, such as
Walafrid Strabo (who
served as abbot) and
scholars such as
Hermann of Reichenau...
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tradition linked the book to Gelasius,
apparently based on the
ascription of
Walafrid Strabo to him of what
evidently is this book.
Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Tomasi...
