Middle High German · AI translation
St. Galler (mittelrheinisches) Passionsspiel 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 1035–1042 1035 merket mit zühten nû durch got
Pay attention now with good manners, for God's sake;
1036 ez gêt êrste an die rehte nôt
now the real trouble begins.
1037 pylate wir bringen einen man
Pilate, we bring a man
1038 der wole mit zoubernisse kan
who is well versed in sorcery;
1039 dâr umbe wilt dû gerehte hân
so if you want to do justice,
1040 sô tuo ime den tôt an
put him to death.
1041 waz hât er übels getân
What evil has he done
1042 daz er sal zuo buoze stân
that he should stand to be punished?
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M532).
Source and licence Translated by Claude (claude-opus-5-5, Anthropic) from the library's urn:rem:anonymous:m532: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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