Middle High German · AI translation
Prüler Wurmsegen English for the 2 passages 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 contra vermes.
Job lay on the dung-heap;
2–12 2 er rief ze Kriste.
he called to Christ.
3 er quat. dû genædige Krist.
He said: you gracious Christ,
4 dû der indeme himele bist.
you who are in heaven,
5 dû büeze *deme mennischen des wurmes· N.
cure the person of the worm, N.,
6 durch die Jobes bete.
for the sake of Job's prayer
7 dieer zuo dir tete.
that he made to you
8 dôer in*deme miste lac.
when he lay on the dung-heap,
9 dôer indeme miste rief.
when he called out on the dung-heap
10 zuo deme heiligenKrist.
to the holy Christ.
11 der wurm ist tôt.
The worm is dead.
12 tôt ist der wurm.
Dead is the worm.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M247).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:rem:anonymous:m247: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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