This book is designed to accompany an introductory study of the history of German literature. It is assumed that the history itself will be learned, so far as necessary, either from lectures or from some other book devoted to the subject.Show Excerpt encircling sea--oceanus; here the Mediterranean. 9: The supposition is that Hildebrand's speech is missing, and that lines 47-50 form part of a reply by Hadubrand, ending with a taunt so bitter that the old warrior could not brook it even from his own son. He sees that he must ...
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This book is designed to accompany an introductory study of the history of German literature. It is assumed that the history itself will be learned, so far as necessary, either from lectures or from some other book devoted to the subject.Show Excerpt encircling sea--oceanus; here the Mediterranean. 9: The supposition is that Hildebrand's speech is missing, and that lines 47-50 form part of a reply by Hadubrand, ending with a taunt so bitter that the old warrior could not brook it even from his own son. He sees that he must fight. 10: East Goths. 11: A guess of the translator; the meaning of the original being quite uncertain.] +II. THE MERSEBURG CHARMS+ Two incantations that date back to pagan times, albeit the manuscript, discovered at Merseburg in 1841, is of the 10th century. The dialect is Frankish. No. 1 is for loosening a prisoner's fetters, the other for curing the sprained leg of a horse. The translation is BOtticher's. 1 Einst sassen Idise, [1] sassen nieder hier und dort. Die hefteten Hafte, die hemmten das Heer, Die klaubten an den Kniefesseln Entspring den Banden, entfleuch den Feinden! [Notes: 1: 'Idise' means 'women'; here battle-maids similar in character to the Northern valkyries. 2
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