Surrexit christus hodie lyrics to songs

  • surrexit christus hodie lyrics to songs
  • Surrexit Christus hodie

    translated as:
    For human solace, Christ today
    Today the victor o’er his foes
    Jesus Christ is risen today
    with Sing we to our God above

    adapted as: 
    Christ the Lord is risen today

    with
    EASTER HYMN (SALISBURY)
    LLANFAIR

     

    I. Text: Latin Origins

    This Latin resurrection text of unknown authorship can be traced to three important manuscripts from the 14th century. All three were compiled into a critical edition by F.J. Mone, in his Lateinische Hymnen des Mittelalters, vol. 1 (1853), no. 143, p. 195 (Fig. 1).

    1. A manuscript from Kloster Engelberg in Switzerland (I. 4/25), dated to 1372, contains the longest text, which corresponds to stanzas 1–3, 5–7, 9, and 11, shown in Fig. 1.

    2. A 14th century manuscript at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich (Clm. 5539, f. 142) has the same text as in Engelberg, but only stanzas 1–3, 5, 7, and 9. This source is described as bearing a melody.

    3. A 14th century manuscript at t