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Another fragment from ms You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. It mixes Latin and German in a very interesting way.

Both "venom" and "pulmon" have been mentioned for the third word in line 1.

I think the title reads "Cont[ra] venen[um]" (against venom), but I am far from sure

The underlined line at the bottom reads "Sanguine[m] de pulmo[n]e agni" (lamb lung blood).

Marco, I was reading some of the charms and recipes in Clm 726 and noticed the following on folio 44r:

"Dem das hirn schwindat odar gar verschwunden der ist dar ass dik gersten mel mit gaismilch gemischt er gerist."


Putting this into slightly more readable German (not modern or proper German, but expansion of some of the truncated words so they are more recognizable in German), I get the following:

Dem das [ge]hirn schwindlig oder gar* verschwunden der ist dar essen dicke gersten mehl mit geissmilch gemischt er gereist.

Note that "gar" is Norse for to go or to become and gereist is both Norse and German for to travel/to get up (in the morning or from bed)/to get around.

Which in quick-and-dirty literal translation means:

One/Those who brain dizzy (become) or faint/become unconscious, eat thick barley flour with goat's-milk mixed he can travel/becomes ambulatory/is able to get around/recovers.

But translates more comfortably to:

[For] one who becomes faint or unconscious, eat thick barley flour mixed with goat's milk [porridge], he will recover.


It caught my attention, of course, because of the similarity of "gaismilch" to the VMS "gas mich". Some have suggested "goose milk" as a possible reading of f116 but I was never very comfortable with that suggestion because geese don't give milk. If it does intend to say "goat's milk" (rather than something like "gave me" for "gaf mich" if it's an "f" rather than a long-s) then the dropping of sounds is either some regional dialect or the writer is not a native German speaker (which I've suspected from the beginning since the marginalia is quirky and never completely correct German).