Middle High German · AI translation
Pfaffe Konrad: 'Rolandslied' (P) 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 6763–6767 6763 dône mahtes langer rât sîn.
Then there could be no remedy any longer:
6764 tôt viel der bischov Turpîn.
Bishop Turpin fell dead.
6765 di engel di sêle hin schieden.
The angels bore the soul away;
6766 si vuorten den ire lieben.
they led their dear one
6767 zuo der marterære kôre.
to the choir of the martyrs,
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M205P).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:rem:pfaffe-konrad:m205p: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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