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The Medieval Church · c. 850–880
Muspilli
Anonymous
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What it is
A fragmentary alliterative poem on the fate of the soul at death and the end of the world in fire, with Elijah fighting Antichrist and the mountains burning.
Why it lasted
A striking fusion of Christian eschatology with Germanic apocalyptic imagery, scribbled into the margins of a royal prayer book.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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