Middle High German · AI translation
Gothaer Fiebersegen
English for the 1 passage 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.
407r.a.55–414v.b.11
spîse di einic kristenmennische ezzen mac di en saltdû niet
food that any Christian person may eat, that you shall not
schiuwen.
shun.
[nû] willen [ich] mit helfen unses hêrren [des] heiligen Kristes.
[Now] [I] will, with the help of our Lord [the] holy Christ
inde sente [Marien] inde sente Isebeten inde sente Annen.
and St [Mary] and St Elisabeth and St Anne
inde sente [Johanne] inde des guoten sente Peters. inde aller
and St [John] and the good St Peter and all
gotes heiligen büezen. Heinriche [alde] Hildegunde. des riten.
God's saints, cure Heinrich [or] Hildegund of the fever
inde aller sîner [boeser] siten in Kristes namen
and of all its [evil] ways, in Christ's name,
âmen. âmen. sanfte inde wole gebar [sente] [Isebet] sente
amen, amen. Gently and well did [St] [Elisabeth] bear St
[Johanne] sanfte inde wole gebar sente [Anne] [sente] Marien.
[John]; gently and well did St [Anne] bear [St] Mary;
sanfte inde. wole gebar sente [Marie] [unsen] hêrren [den]
gently and well did St [Mary] bear [our] Lord, [the]
heiligen [Kriste] alsô sanfte inde alsô wole [gelâze] [den] mennischen
holy [Christ]. Just so gently and so well may [the] person
N.. [der] [rite] inde alle sîne boese siten in Kristes namen âmen âmen. here nâh saltdû sprechen. driu.
N. [be released by] [the] [fever] and all its evil ways, in Christ's name, amen, amen. After this you shall say three
paternoster mit drîn venjen. inde driu. avê maria. mit drîn. venjen.
Our Fathers with three prostrations, and three Hail Marys with three prostrations.
Translator's note. Square brackets are the edition's restorations. In 414v.b.9-10 the restored verb 'gelâze', 'leave, release', is turned into the passive '[be released by]' for English order. 'rite' is fever. Heinrich and Hildegund are sample names.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M070).