Walafrid Strabo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...German scholar, b. Swabia. Educated at the abbey of Reichenau, he wrote, at 18, a Latin verse account of a journey to the hereafter, Visio Wettini. In 842 he returned to Reichenau as abbot. There he encouraged the production and exchange of manuscripts...