Ezzolied

The Ezzolied, or Anegenge, is an old German poem written by Ezzo, a German scholar and priest of Bamberg. It was written about 1060, but not, as one authority asserts, composed while the author was making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The subject of the poem is the life of Christ. Very popular during the late Middle Ages, the Ezzolied had a great influence on the poetry of south Germany, and is valuable as a monument of the poetical literature of the time.