Middle High German · AI translation
Hermann von Fritzlar: Heiligenleben
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.
93r.19–93v.6
unde toetete di priestere der
and killed the priests of the
apgote. unde sluoc vile hundert zuo tôde
idols, and struck dead many hundreds
der heidene. dô wart der keiser
of the heathen. Then the emperor grew
zornic. unde wolte wænen si tete iz
angry and would have it that she did it
mit zoubernisse. unde liez si besuochen
by sorcery, and had her searched [to see]
ob si iht bî ir hette von zoubernisse
whether she had any sorcery on her,
unde liez ir daz hâr abe snîden obe
and had her hair cut off, [in case]
di kraft læge in den locken. dô sprach
the power lay in her locks. Then
si. ich entuo iz niht mit zoubernisse
she said: I do not do it by sorcery;
Christus gotes sun der tuot diz. dô bevalch
Christ, God's Son, does this. Then
her sînen knehten daz si die juncvrouwen
he ordered his servants to beat the virgin
sluogen mit geiselen unde
with scourges and
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M407).