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An anthology of German literature

by Calvin Thomas

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II | The Merseburg Charms

Two incantations that date back to pagan times, albeit the manuscript, discovered at Merseburg in 1841, is of the 10th century. The dialect is Frankish. No. 1 is for loosening a prisoner’s fetters, the other for curing the sprained leg of a horse. The translation is Bötticher’s.

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