The scholar-monk Walahfrid Strabo was born about 809 in Alemannia in the south-west region of Germany (Swabia). His first name is sometimes spelled Walafrid. Strabo is a personal epithet meaning “Squinter” and wasn’t carried as a family name.
When Walahfrid was about eight years old, his family placed him as an oblate in the Benedictine Abbey at Reichenau, an island in the lower branch of Lake Constance in central Europe. Wettin, Walahfrid’s tutor, and Grimald, the head of the abbey school at Reichenau, recognized Walahfrid to be a brilliant student. In 826, Walahfrid was sent from Reichenau to the monastery at Fulda to further his learning under the erudite and eminent scholar Hrabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda.
Walahfrid’s Visio Wettini {Vision of Wettin} is an important dream-vision precursor to Dante’s Commedia. Walahfrid’s On the Cultivation of Gardens {De cultura hortorum} is a highly sophisticated masterpiece of Christian incarnational understanding. Walahfrid was a brilliant medieval Latin poet filled with love for God, men, and all of creation.
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