Middle High German · AI translation
Grazer Hagelsegen
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.
148v.1–148v.9
Ivie riffe. Ivie riffe. Ivie riffe. hin vile michel. hin vile michel.
Ivie riffe. Ivie riffe. Ivie riffe. Away, very great one! Away, very great one!
hin vile michel. von wannen gênt swarziu wolkenn.
Away, very great one! Where do black clouds come from?
daz ist der heilige Krist. mit sîner gezierde. daz ist der heilige
That is the holy Christ with his splendour; that is the holy
Krist mit sîner menige. der scheidet trüebiu wolkenn.
Christ with his host. He parts the dark clouds;
der wile veimen wîze steine. daz si êr zergên. êr si zeerde gên.
he will skim off the white stones, so that they melt before they come to earth,
vore den selben wîhen worten. daz uns ze lüppe. Pat̄. Pater.
before these same holy words. That [came] to us by witchcraft. Our Father. Our Father.
Pater. gehügest dû nû hagel. wâ dich die wartmanne. in dem
Our Father. Do you remember now, hail, where the watchmen saw you in the
wolkenn sâhen. ûf harte dû læge. engelen dû jagetes. daz dû mêrer getarst.
clouds? On the hard [ground] you lay; you hunted angels; so that you dare [no] more,
ie swâ man dich nante. Mm. Pat̄.
wherever you are named. Mm. Our Father.
Translator's note. Ivie riffe is kept as a word of power; 'hin vile michel' is taken as 'away, very great one', but may itself be a formula. veimen (148v.5) is 'skim off'; its sense here is uncertain. 'daz uns ze lüppe' (148v.6) is obscure (lüppe is 'poison, witchcraft') and seems incomplete; it may also mean 'may this serve us as a charm'. 'ûf harte' may be 'on the wooded hill'; 'engelen dû jagetes' (you hunted angels) is odd; the negative in '[no] more' is supplied. Pat̄ and Pater are taken as the Our Father; 'Mm.' is unexplained.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M101).