Note 18 — Chapter V · THE CAROLINGIANS AND THE TENTH CENTURY
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E.g., Sedulius Scotus. Blume suggests that the hymn above is by the author of Ecce iam noctis, page 121.
Alcuin’s Sapphic Christe salvator hominis ab ore (MGH, Poet. lat. Carol. I. 313; AH 50: 154) is less scrupulous in quantities than might be expected of him if he intended a metrum. It is entitled Ymnus.