Middle High German · AI translation
Altdeutsche Exodus
English for the 2 passages of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1240–1252
grôzem unde langem.
great and long.
vüre nieht er iz nehabete.
He thought nothing of it;
zwêne goukelære er dô ladete.
he then summoned two conjurers.
die macheten gelîche.
They likewise made
trachen samelîche.
dragons in the same way
mit goukeles liste.
by the skill of conjuring.
sine mahten iz gevristen.
They could not prevent it
disiu alterseine.
that this one, all alone,
neveræze ene beide.
devoured them both.
unde wart abe widere.
And it turned back again
zeholze zeire bilede.
into wood, into its [own] form.
doch newart weiz got.
Yet, God knows, not at all
sîn herze nieht verwandelet.
was his heart changed.
1286–1293
zeichen grôzere.
greater signs?”
uns saget diu schrift zewâre.
Scripture tells us truly
daz die goukelære.
that the conjurers,
mit galsters liste.
by the skill of their spells,
ze derstunte vriste.
at that same time
diu selben werc worhten.
worked the same works.
nieht in nevorhten
They were not afraid at all.
durch daz newart weiz got.
Because of that, God knows, [his heart] was not
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M068).