Middle High German · AI translation
Straßburger Blutsegen
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.
68.1–68.8
Genzan unde Jordan giengen sament schiezen
Genzan and Jordan went shooting together;
dô verschôz Genzan Jordane die sîten
then Genzan shot Jordan in the side.
dô verstuont daz bluot verstande diz bluot
Then the blood stopped. May this blood stop.
stant bluot stant bluot vaste
Stand, blood; stand, blood, fast.
Vrô unde Lazakere giengen molt petritto
Vrô and Lazakere went molt petritto.
tumbe saz in berge mit tumbeme kinde inarme
Tumbe sat on the mountain with the Tumbe child in his arm.
tump hiez der berc tump hiez daz kint
Tump the mountain was called, Tump the child was called.
der heilige tumbe versegene diuse wunde
May holy Tumbe bless away this wound.
Translator's note. Genzan, Jordan, Vrô, Lazakere and Tumbe are kept as names. Vrô may be 'lord'. 'tump/tumbe' also means 'dumb, mute, foolish', perhaps playing on stilling the blood. 'molt petritto' is not German and is kept as it stands.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M037).