The Merseburg charms, Merseburg spells, or Merseburg incantations (German: die Merseburger Zaubersprüche) are two medieval magic spells, charms or incantations...

Merseburg (German: [ˈmɛʁzəbʊʁk] ) is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of...

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...

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...

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...

Magical Papyri Maqlû, Akkadian incantation text The Merseburg charms, two medieval magic spells, charms written in Old High German Cyprianus, a generic term...

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...

folklore after Christianization. As an example, the second of the two Merseburg charms (two Old High German examples of alliterative verse from a manuscript...

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...

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...

Grammaticus. Vernacular sources on Germanic mythology include the Merseburg Charms, the Nibelungenlied, and various pieces of Old English literature,...

Ayurveda Charaka Samhita Sushruta Samhita Bhela Samhita Upanishads Vedas Merseburg charms Zagovory Flood 1996, p. 37; Witzel 2001. "Construction of the Vedas"...

A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905)...

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...

(from Anglo-Saxon metrical charms to Atharvaveda's suktas). Anglo-Saxon metrical charms Apocryphal Prayer Merseburg charms Norito It also resembles the...

England: Elf Charms in Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 125-127. Thomas, Val. 2022. "The Nine Herbs Charm: Plants Poisons...

"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...

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...

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...

German lines survive, in four works: the Hildebrandslied, Muspilli, the Merseburg Charms and the Wessobrunn Prayer. All four are preserved in forms that are...

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...

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...

Gullfaxi to his son Magni after fighting Hrungnir in Skáldskaparmál. Merseburg charms, the second of which involves Wodan healing an injured horse Animals...

von Weissenburg, the Latin-German dictionary Abrogans, the magical Merseburg Charms and the Old High German translation of the theologian Tatian's Gospel...

Emil Doepler's depiction of the Second Merseburg Charm, one of the only known examples of Continental Germanic paganism preserved in Old High German...

variously dated between 750 and 780, probably from Reichenau. The 8th century Merseburg Incantations are the only remnant of pre-Christian German literature....

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...

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...

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...

extent, Old English sources, similar to or identical with the Idise of the Merseburg Incantations. Some scholars have theorized the compound to be a simple...