Middle High German · AI translation
Hugo von Trimberg: Renner (E) 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.
AI translation. Translated by Claude (Anthropic) from the original beside it, then checked against the original by a second AI (Codex, from OpenAI); objections that held up were corrected. No specialist has reviewed it. Read it as a plain working version, not an authoritative translation. How these were made 24113–24119 24113 unde ist grôz wunder daz in ieman
and it is a great wonder that anyone
24114 ûf erden an gesigen kan
on earth can overcome them,
24115 wanne unser ist lützel unde ir ist vile
for we are few and they are many;
24116 dâ von sîn wir ire goukelspil
therefore we are their juggling-game;
24117 sie sehent uns wole unde wir sie niht
they see us well, and we do not see them;
24118 ouch habent si miteinander pfliht
they also have a pact among themselves
24119 ûf unsern schaden an allen dingen
to our harm in all things,
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M334).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:rem:hugo-von-trimberg:m334:norm, from the Referenzkorpus Mittelhochdeutsch, ReM 2.1 (CC BY-SA 4.0), one English line for each line of the original. Only some passages are translated so far: those that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and the demons-and-angels study cite.
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This translation is rem_hugo-von-trimberg_m334.json in the downloadable collection, which also records each objection the review raised and what was done about it.
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