Gandersheim rhyming chronicle

The Gandersheimer Reimchronik is created in the first half of the 13th century, Low German rhythmic chronicle the history of the congregation Gandersheim .

The chronicle was written by Eberhard von Gandersheim between 1216 and 1218 . The aim of the writing was to instruct the ministerials of the monastery. The chronicle covers the history of the monastery from the beginnings of the monastery in the 9th century to the time of the constitution.

Web links

• Gandersheimer Reimchronik , in: Repertory historical sources of the German Middle Ages of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

literature

• Ludwig Weiland : Saxon World Chronicle. Eberhard's rhyming chronicle from Gandersheim. Brunswick rhyming chronicle. Chronicle of the monastery of S. Simon and Judas zu Goslar. Holstein rhyme chronicle , in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Dt. Chron., 2, 1877, pp. 397–429 ( digital copy of the dMGH)
• Paul Hasse : The rhyming chronicle of Eberhard von Gandersheim , Göttingen (dissertation) 1872. ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library )
• Christoph Walther : On the Gandersheimer Reimchronik , in: Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research, 46, 1920, pp. 76–77.