Old Swedish · AI translation
Prayer to the Virgin Mary (Birgitta Andersdotter's prayer book) 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 1.14–1.16 1.14 O maria thu ſo̅ ær alla dygdha op-hoff
O Mary, you who are the source of all virtues
1.15 / oc ffulko̅nilſe/ tik hedra Oc
and their perfection, to you give honour and
1.16 wælſigna alle hælge mæn/ oc tik til
blessing all the saints, and to you
The whole original: Menota's corpus at Clarino (open Holm A 80).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:menota:anonymous:th-ſigx-at-jngen-ær-ſwa-ſtoꝛ-ſyndare-om-han-daghelica-læs-tæſſa-bøn-at-ha-jw-ſanelica-far-nadhe-j-ændhelikthinne-aff-míſkunena-modhꝛ-maria:holm-a-80, from the Medieval Nordic Text Archive, Menota (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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