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    The Merseburg charms or Merseburg incantations (German: die Merseburger Zaubersprüche) are two medieval magic spells, charms or incantations, written in...
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    Merseburg (German: [ˈmɛʁzəbʊʁk] ) is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of...
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    as the amended place name Idistaviso. One of the two Old High German Merseburg Incantations call upon female beings—idisi—to bind and hamper an army...
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    German, but only the Merseburg Charms exist in a non-Christianized form. A similar situation exists in Old English, where over 100 charms are attested, including...
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    Sinthgunt sang charms, her sister Sunna sang charms, Friia sang charms, her sister Volla sang charms, and finally Wodan sang charms, followed by a verse...
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    Incantation (redirect from Magic charms)
    Magical Papyri Maqlû, Akkadian incantation text The Merseburg charms, two medieval magic spells, charms written in Old High German Cyprianus, a generic term...
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    Traditional Award in the 18th Independent Music Awards with the song Norupo. Merseburg charms Old English rune poem Kragehul I Eggja stone Ear (rune) Wikimedia Commons...
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    folklore after Christianization. As an example, the second of the two Merseburg charms (two Old High German examples of alliterative verse from a manuscript...
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    extension of the Germanic god Odin. Old High German Merseburg Charms: Two Old High German charms stemming from the pagan period mentioning at least six...
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    account of the soul after the Last Judgment, and the Merseburg charms are transcriptions of spells and charms from the pagan Germanic tradition. Of particular...
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    Grammaticus. Vernacular sources on Germanic mythology include the Merseburg Charms, the Nibelungenlied, and various pieces of Old English literature,...
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    blot-monath. The number of references to the Disir ranging from the Merseburg Charms to many instances in Germanic mythology indicate that they were considered...
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  • Ayurveda Charaka Samhita Sushruta Samhita Bhela Samhita Upanishads Vedas Merseburg charms Zagovory Flood 1996, p. 37; Witzel 2001. "Construction of the Vedas"...
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    A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905)...
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  • Popularly Known as the Nine Herbs Charm". Mimisbrunnr.info. Accessed February 2023. Hostetter, Aaron K. 2023. "The Metrical Charms". Old English Poetry Project...
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    (from Anglo-Saxon metrical charms to Atharvaveda's suktas). Anglo-Saxon metrical charms Apocryphal Prayer Merseburg charms Norito It also reminds difference...
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    Gullfaxi to his son Magni after fighting Hrungnir in Skáldskaparmál. Merseburg charms, the second of which involves Wodan healing an injured horse Animals...
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  • Skeiðbrimir: "the one which snorts as he runs"; Sleipnir: "trickster"; Second Merseburg Charm, in which the gods heal a hurt horse List of horses in mythology and...
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    Sinthgunt sang charms, her sister Sunna sang charms, Friia sang charms, her sister Volla sang charms, and finally Wodan sang charms, followed by a verse...
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    German lines survive, in four works: the Hildebrandslied, Muspilli, the Merseburg Charms and the Wessobrunn Prayer. All four are preserved in forms that are...
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    "The Magic Mill". Galdrabók The Great Book of Saint Cyprian Hoodoo Merseburg charms Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses Tycho Brahe days Mary Rustad, The...
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  • von Weissenburg, the Latin-German dictionary Abrogans, the magical Merseburg Charms and the Old High German translation of the theologian Tatian's Gospel...
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    reflex of the original form of the word. However, except for the First Merseburg Charm, in which they work battle-magic, idis only occurs with the meaning...
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    not for the preservation of the cognate theonym Volla in the Second Merseburg Charm, Fulla would remain in a similarly ambiguous position like that of...
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    variously dated between 750 and 780, probably from Reichenau. The 8th century Merseburg Incantations are the only remnant of pre-Christian German literature....
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    Emil Doepler's depiction of the Second Merseburg Charm, one of the only known examples of Continental Germanic paganism preserved in Old High German...
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    Fridlefsborg), a Danish one has already the foreign Fru. The Second Merseburg Charm may have Frûa = Frôwa as the proper name of the goddess, although the...
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    English charms mention figures that are theorised as representing an Anglo-Saxon notion of valkyries or valkyrie-like female beings; Wið færstice, a charm to...
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    Wið færstice (category Anglo-Saxon metrical charms)
    Grendon, whose collection of Anglo-Saxon charms appeared in the Journal of American Folklore in 1908, “the charm is intended to cure a sudden twinge or...
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    attested solely in the Old High German 9th- or 10th-century "horse cure" Merseburg Incantation. In the incantation, Sinthgunt is referred to as the sister...
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