Walter of Compiègne
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Walter of Compiègne
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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 Notre Dam
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French poet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_of_Compi%C3%A8gne
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2023-10-20T22:01:40Z
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