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Notker’s sequence has no rhymes, its figures of speech are infrequent,39 and they are simple in comparison with what is offered by subsequent texts. The figures of interpretation are not dense enough to veil the facts which they interpret; Mary in her actual story is present in every stanzaStanze, except in stanzas 6 and 7; these are almost entirely figurative, but they still contain the link with Mary’s real life by the formulas Te … praefigurat, Maria and Tu … Maria … esse crederis.

In the sequences of the eleventh century, the progress of the figurative style is evident; there are stanzas and even series of stanzas where the figures completely conceal the story. The following stanza, taken from the sequence ‘In Assumptione Beatae Mariae’40 attributed to Herimannus ContractusHerimannus Contractus:

str. 2 Euge Dei porta quae non aperta veritatis lumen ipsum solem iustitiae indutum carne ducis in orbem,

with its allusions to Ezek. 44, 2, Mal. 4,2, and JohnJohannes (Evangelist) 1, 1–16, is only one in a series of similar paraphrases of Christ’s birth, in which the event disappears, concealed by its symbols; here are two more stanzaStanzes which contain very intricate figurative images: