Livonian Rhymed Chronicle | |
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Livländische Reimchronik | |
Author(s) | Anonymous |
Audience | Presumed to be the members of the Livonian Order |
Language | Middle High German |
Date | c. 1290s[1]) |
Manuscript(s) | Codex Palatinus Germanicus 367 |
Genre | Chronicle |
Verse form | Rhyming couplets |
Length | 12,017 lines |
Subject | Livonian Crusade |
Period covered | From 1143 to 1290 CE |
The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle[2] (German: Livländische Reimchronik) is a chronicle written in Middle High German by an anonymous author. It covers the period 1180 to 1343 and contains a wealth of detail about Livonia (present-day south Estonia and Latvia).