Download or read book The Heliand written by Mariana Scott and published by Chapel Hill, U. of North Carolina P. This book was released on 1966 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic poem in Old Saxon, written in the first half of the 9th century. The title means saviour in Old Saxon (cf. German and Dutch Heiland meaning "saviour"), and the poem is a Biblical paraphrase that recounts the life of Jesus in the alliterative verse style of a Germanic epic. Heliand is the largest known work of written Old Saxon.