Autentisk Othloskrift og -pseudononsens

This manuscript was written by the monk Otloh, or Othlo, of Saint Emmeram, a remarkable figure in 11th-century literature, and is comprised almost exclusively of his own works. Born around 1010 in the diocese of Freising, Bavaria, Otloh studied at Tegernsee Abbey. He took a great interest in the art of writing, in which he was self-taught. He became a well-known scribe of his time. In 1032, after a serious disagreement with the local provost, he left Tegernsee for the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Emmeram in Ratisbon (present-day Regensburg). Some 30 years later, he left Saint Emmeram for Fulda. Besides his extensive work as a scribe, Otloh was the author of numerous works dealing with theological problems in prose and verse. Otloh’s works are written in Latin, except for a prayer* in Old Bavarian which follows a Latin example “Oratio cuiusdam peccatoris” (Prayer of a sinner). The manuscript came from Saint Emmeram’s Abbey to Munich in 1811. 

*
Den bøn indgår som et centralt stykke fremmedtekst (og giver titel til det næstsidste kapitel, "Zilezzist") i Harald Voetmanns Syner og fristelser, et med danske læseøjne fantastisk nonsens/lyddigt - Ursonate, gå hjem og vug:

Trohtin almahtiger, tu der pist einiger trost

unta ewigu heial aller dero

di in dih globunt

iouh in dih gidingant

tu inluihta min herza

Dina gnata megi anadenchin

unta minta sunta. Zilezzist piuiliho ih mih selhen

unta alla mina arbeita allen minen fliz dina gnada.

Odo ni chunna

odo ni wella mih bidenchan duhr mina brodi

unta duhr mina unruocha

odo durb mina tumpheit.

Unta also din guita, unta din wistuom ist.