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He was descended from a noble family and nephew of Ekkehard I, the poet of Waltharius. Ekkehard IV lauds him as “delicate of body but not of mind, stuttering of tongue but not of intellect, pushing boldly forward in things Divine, a vessel of the Holy Spirit without equal in his time”. The hymn, “Media Vita”, was erroneously attributed to him late in the Middle Ages. Gall, speaks of fifty sequences attributable to Notker. (The reason for this name is uncertain.) Between 881-887 Notker dedicated a collection of such verses to Bishop Liutward of Vercelli, but it is not known which or how many are his.
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Notker learned how to fit the separate syllables of a Latin text to the tones of this jubilation this poem was called the sequence (q.v.), formerly called the “jubilation”. It had been the custom to prolong the Alleluia in the Mass before the Gospel, modulating through a skillfully harmonized series of tones. He introduced the sequence, a new species of religious lyric, into Germany. The number of works ascribed to him is constantly increasing. Gall” (monachus Sangallensis), author of the legends and anecdotes “Gesta Caroli Magni”. It is practically accepted that he is the “monk of St. He completed Erchanbert’s chronicle (816), arranged a martyrology, and composed a metrical biography of St. He was chiefly active as teacher, and displayed refinement of taste as poet and author. He became a monk there and is mentioned as librarian (890), and as master of guests (892-94). Gall’s, from Iso and the Irishman Moengall, teachers in the monastic school. Of a distinguished family, he received his education with Tuotilo, originator of tropes, at St. (I) NOTKER BALBULUS (STAMMERER), BLESSED, monk and author, b. Gall who bore this name, the following are the most important: