Walter of Compiègne
Template:Short description Walter of Compiègne was a French poet who lived in the middle of the 12th century and was a monk at Saint Martin's at Tours. He composed a Latin biography of Muhammad in elegiac couplets.
The story of Mahomet reached Walter by oral tradition, according to the information he himself provides. Its source was a young Muslim who was brought to France after the First Crusade by a French knight, and who converted to Christianity. He narrated the life of Mahomet to Pagan of Sens, the abbot of Template:Ill. Paganus told it to Warner, abbot of the monastery at Tours, and Warner told it to Walter of Compiègne.Template:Sfn Script error: No such module "Lang". (Poetic Pastimes on Muhammad) may be given as its title. The poem begins:
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Bibliography
- F. J. E. Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. Template:ISBN) vol. 2 pp. 82–83.
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