Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen

Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen. Daniel Sudermann* (1550-ca. 1631), from an older Marienlied. This hymn is found in Etliche Hohe geistliche Gesänge, Sampt anderen Geistreichen getichten (Strasbourg, 1626), but originated in a Marienlied (‘song to the Virgin Mary’) of the 14th century, perhaps by John Tauler*, though possibly earlier (see ‘Marian hymns’*). It is given under Tauler in Wackernagel, Das Deutsche Kirchenlied II. p. 303, on the basis of its heading in the 1626 book: ‘Ein vraltes Gesang, So unter dez Herre Tauleri Schriften funden, etwas verständlicher gemacht’ (‘found among Tauler’s writings, and made clearer’). It is one of three texts in Wackernagel with similar first lines (cf...