Old Swedish · AI translation
Her byrias ſiw ſacramenta
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.
293r.16–293r.33
bidhia Ok for͛ thy at th̅nne vnga qͥnnan
pray. And because this young woman
wille ſik ey aff ſino̅ loſta halla for͛
would not keep herself from her lust for
the høghtidhinna ſkuld genaſt ho̅ ko̅ i
the sake of the feast, as soon as she came into
kirkiona tha ko̅ diæwlin in i henna likama
the church the devil came into her body
oc pinte hona Oc en p̅ſt kom oc tok
and tormented her. And a priest came and took
pallam aff ſc̅i ſebastiani altara oc lagdhe
the pall from St Sebastian's altar and laid [it]
a henne at diæwlin ſkulle fly Tha ko̅
on her so that the devil would flee. Then
diæwlin oc pinte p̅ſtin oc tho ko̅ diæwlin
the devil came and tormented the priest, and then the devil went
fra p̅ſtin oc til qͥnnona i gen Sidha̅
from the priest back to the woman again. Then
komo qͥnno̅na frænder oc kalladho koklara
the woman's kinsmen came and called in conjurers
at the ſkullo m; kokelſkap diæwlin
so that they should by conjuring drive the devil
wtkøra Ok tha koklarene willo diæwlin
out. And when the conjurers tried to drive the devil
wtkøra tha pintis ho̅ ſo̅ ho̅ hafdhe thuſanda
out, she was tormented as if she had a thousand
diæffla Om ſidhr͛ førdho the hona
devils. At last they took her
til en hæligh biſkop oc het fortunatus oc
to a holy bishop, who was called Fortunatus, and
for͛ hans bøn ſkuld wardh qͥnna̅ frælſt
through his prayer the woman was set free.
Ok thy ſkal hwart hionalagh wæghia helgho̅
And therefore every married couple shall respect holy
natto̅ Oc rædhas ſo̅ dauid p̅pha ſighr͛
nights, and fear, as David the prophet says:
Translator's note. 293r.32: to 'shun holy nights' is to abstain from intercourse on them.
The whole original: Menota's corpus at Clarino (open Holm D 4).