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yvanspijk · 2 days

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The words right and rectum have a common origin. Right comes from Proto-Germanic *rehtaz ('straight; right; just'). This word shared a common Proto-Indo-European ancestor with Latin rēctus ('straight; right; just'), from which the medical term rectum ('straight terminal part of the large intestine') was derived. The infographic shows more.

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merovingian-marvels · 1 year

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Merseburger Spells

The Merseburg Spells or Incantations are two magic spells found in a Latin Sacramentarium and are written in Carolingian minuskel. The manuscript originates from the Abbey of Fulda, Germany and are dated around 800-900 AD, but only rediscovered in 1841.

The spells do not show any sign of Christian influence and are the only written proof of Germanic mythology in Old High German.

The first spell tells of prisoners of war which are freed by the Idisi. An unknown kind of god-like figures, possibly a Germanic version of Valkyries.

The second spell is a healing incantation. Wotan rides through the woods with Balder, until Balders horse named Phol gets hurt. Wotan, Friia (Freya), her sister Volla and Sinthgund and her sister Sunna sing to the horse; let your wounds be cured.

There are other version of the second spell known, but in different rhyming couplets and turned into a Christian motive.

English and Dutch speakers may identify most of the words without knowing the lyrics first.

Merseburger Domstiftbibliothek, codex 136, f85r

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theyoungwaldschrat · 2 years

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Runetober Day 15: Bones (following the woodland magic prompts by smalltownspells)

The second Merseburg Charm is a ninth century Old High German spell in which Woden (Odin), Sinthguth and Frija (Frigg) heal the broken leg of Balder's horse:

Like bone-sprain, so blood-sprain, so joint-sprain: Bone to bone, blood to blood, joints to joints, so may they be glued

In Old High German: sose benrenki, sose bluotrenki, sose lidirenki: ben zi bena, bluot zi bluoda, lid zi geliden, sose gelimida sin!

In Elder Futhark runes: ᛊᛟᛊᛖᛒᛖᚾᚱᛖᚾᚲᛁᛊᛟᛊᛖᛒᛚᚢᛟᛏᚱᛖᚾᚲᛁᛊᛟᛊᛖᛚᛁᛞᛁᚱᛖᚾᚲᛁᛒᛖᚾᛉᛁᛒᛖᚾᚨᛒᛚᚢᛟᛏᛉᛁᛒᛚᚢᛟᛞᚨᛚᛁᛞᛉᛁᚷᛖᛚᛁᛞᛖᚾᛊᛟᛊᛖᚷᛖᛚᛁᛗᛁᛞᚨᛊᛁᚾ

#mine #my art #runetober #drawtober #inktober #runes #elder futhark #old high german #merseburg charm #smalltownspells

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leonsliga · 7 months

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Thomas saying “hey Matsi hey” can be something so personal

#leave me alone #I’m getting preemptively high off of old dfb thomats content in preparation for whatever they’re gonna throw at us this time around #thomats #thomas müller #thomas mueller #thomas muller #mats hummels #die mannschaft #dfb team #german nt #germany nt #videos #my asks

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vinesaucejoelfacts · 28 days

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𝔉𝔄ℭ𝔗: 𝔍𝔬𝔢𝔩 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔯𝔫 𝔦𝔫 𝔶𝔢 𝔶𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔶𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔢𝔫-𝔥𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔶𝔦𝔯𝔱𝔶-𝔰𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫, 𝔶𝔲𝔰 𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔦𝔣𝔶𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔓𝔯𝔬𝔣𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔊𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔲𝔰.

#vargskelethor #vinesauce #vinesauce joel #it is as ye old scrolls say: yat man is verily a gamer #did you know that ye is actually pronounced “the”?#this is because the letter y was commonly used in print as a replacement for the letter “thorn”#thorn was not used in other languages like german or french so thorn pieces for printing presses were rare at best #history lesson #now you know one of the useless facts i know #anyway im too high im going back to my fuit punch soder #i need to stop adding new tags #ok bye #oh i forgot to add that thorn is pronounced “th”

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bunniesbearsandadventures · 1 month

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Hello everyone!

I was born in Germany.

Esslingen Germany.

Can I speak German?

No.

I'm so sorry mother.

You know how I said I sat down and did my Rosetta Stone lessons for the day?

All lies.

I was too busy watching MLP episodes reupload on YouTube.

Sorry I can't speak German but at least I know a bunch of MLP facts, brony lyrics, and fan theories.

I'm sure those will be useful in the future.

⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆

#random #like I was seven can you blame me?#i was also living in the states at the time!#no other kid spoke a different language #nor did they care #aint no six year old in america cares if their friemd speaks a different language #do you want to pretend are monster high dolls are in an intense battle or not?#i didnt help in germany either #when i went to school there once they found out i could speak english they only used me to practice their own english #they didnt speak german to me either #it was a loss from the start #i still wish i could at least read and write it tho #idk #just completley random

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silenthillbunni · 3 months

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#just a little diary dump:#i've contacted my school therapist again. asked for help regarding anxiety abt schoolwork since i dont get any other treatment #she said she can help me go thru if there are other options since neither psychiatric nor healthcare center will help me #+ she said that she and i can talk abt my anxiety regarding school etc. so in two weeks i'll see her #school starts next week. 4days a week rip... lol thats much for me. a bum. a cellar dweller. i've decided that im gnna go to all my classes #and always work while im there since its harder for me to do it at home. and i will also talk more w my teacher nd ask them for help #then im looking into an online therapy service. it miiight be possible for me to do that. but then i have to contact them and focus on only #1 or 2 issues. in my experience it just doesnt work to go to them and be like everythings bad :(( they wont help u then. i have to narrow it #down for them. nd i'll think i will talk 2 them abt my extreme feelings of loneliness and also my procrastination behavior #but yeah i have no idea if it's possibly bc idk if i can get financial aid for that service. im still in contact w the healthcare center so #i hope she will come to some sort of conclusion nd not just leave my high nd dry (she sent another referral to the persobality disorder -#clinic. even if they rejected the first one. so i'll see)#hmmm yeah. the situation w my sisters is sooooo rough. i hate it. they make me feel so so bad #and the housing situation is roughhhh. it's impossible to get an apartment lol.#so i need to find a way to shut it off and try to not let it bother me #just focus on finishing upper secondary school. nd i've been thinking abt taking out a loan for it and take german/french/spanish classes #instead of doing what im doing now when im actually poor and stressed bc they can choose to cut me off anytime #im meeting my highschool friend on tuesday. she asked if i wanted to hang out for a bit c:#im a bit anxious but like yeah.. it's nice to get out and talk to someone besides my family. which is just my mom lol #i messaged my other old highschool classmate on insta and said i saw her in my neighborhood #she replied but i had lowkeyyy hoped for more... like maybe being able to befriend her T-T but she didnt seem so interested in talking to me #which is ok ofc. it just made me a bit sad bc idk how to make friends and i thought she was rlly nice. but oh well #im rlly sad atm. maybe heartbreak prob. even more sad bc it was my stupid fault but yeah #im still grateful for all that it gave me. nd how i got to experience feelings of warmth nd love nd appreciation i didnt know i could feel #so even if im just contantly heavily sad bc i keep being like oh. i wanna ask this. say that. wonder what theyre up to. etc etc. i just have #to... be sad and just keep going forward #hope and try to not fuck everything else up. even if it feels like... what do all the other things matter when what i rlly rlly wanted got #ruined..... thats life tho. i know. im just so bad at handling life :((#i feel so broken and confused and i hate that i didnt get to be normal and healthy #im so illequipped at dealing w myself nd my emotions nd there seems to be no professional help for me

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idissectgermanwords · 3 months

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So, I joked about how the english prefix "uver", which would translate to the german "über", while mimicking "over" and "ober", should exist. And I decided to look up "ober" and "über" in a old high german dictionary, which both have (very similar) germanic origins, so I wondered if english used to have a version of "über".

In old english there were "ufan" and "ufera", meaning the same thing as "über". It doesn't seem to have existed anymore in middle english. Sad.

I was mainly just thinking about this because you can't even imagine how annoying it is when people seem think the dots on the ü are just for decoration. That is a different sound.

Oh man, uverdid it again.

#it always starts with a small joke and then I end up on an old english dictionary or something #normally it's an old high german dictionary. though

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7rashstar · 27 days

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03-10-24

#march 2024 #dogs #animals #farm #the dog in the back that’s facing away is milo #i found him when he was a baby puppy when i was in high school #my uncles farm dog had jus died around that time #i remember calling my uncle being like ‘pls don’t tell my dad he’s gonna be sooooo mad but i uhhh found a puppy’#n then he and his husband took him in and the rest is history!!#he had been looking for a boxer/boxer mix of some kind #his old farm dog malcolm was a german shepherd

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yvanspijk · 8 days

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Dear means 'valued; precious; beloved'. However, in certain expressions it also means 'expensive', such as in to cost dear. This meaning, inherited from Proto-Germanic, became dominant in cognates of dear, such as Dutch duur, German teuer, and Swedish dyr. The infographic tells you the whole story.

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merovingian-marvels · 11 months

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Bonus post: second Merseburg spell - song lyrics

Phol ende uuodan

Phol and Wodan (Odin)

uuorun zi holza

were in the woods

du uuart demo balderes uolon

sin uuoz birenkict

Than Balder’s foal hurt his foot

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thu biguol en sinhtgunt

Then Sinthgunt sang

sunna era suister

Sunna her sister

thu biguol en friia

Then Friia (Freya) sang

uolla era suister

Volla her sister

thu biguol en uuodan,

Then sang Wodan

so he uuola conda

So he well could

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sose benrenki

Like bone-sprain

sose bluotrenki

Like blood-sprain

sose lidirenki

So joint-sprain

ben zi bena

Bone to bone

bluot zi bluoda

Blood to blood

lid zi geliden

Joint to joints

sose gelimida sin

Let them be glued

Explanation post

Merseburger Domstiftbibliothek, codex 136, f85r

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pankomako · 9 months

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dude i swear if i actually make gang's bay a real show and i write a joke about being trans people are gonna be like "this is incredibly offensive to trans people" and im gonna have to come out and be like "yall im literally a trans person writing myself im just having a laugh why cant you too"

like seriously where's the line between a joke poking fun for laughs and a joke that's actually offensive? i feel like that's a little bit subjective dontcha think

#sorry i literally cant stop thinking about this #i think we need to learn how to laugh at our own imperfections and just our attributes in general #even when they're being joked about from an outside perspective #people laugh at italian stereotypes and little german boy and conservative cartoons actively trying to offend queer people #oh but when a guy known to make fun of autistics makes a video making fun of 20-years-old european music suddenly thats bad #i feel like this ties into the whole idea of critical thinking too. which people are actively getting worse at on all sides #people need to learn to lighten up. not everything needs to either be 'safe to enjoy' or 'actively avoid this bad thing because its bad'#i actively watch helluva boss despite all the controversy around it. i dont give a fuck it's a funny show about hell whatever #i've been trying to avoid saying it because i was afraid people would block me about it. personally i dont have an opinion on the drama #it's just. swagever dude! im so tired of controversy over media actually what the fuck ever i dont care #there's an episode of clone high where they have a REALLY stereotyped charicature of adhd. i watch it anyway bc it's silly #are people boycotting the new spiderverse over the alleged stress workers faced? doesnt fucking seem like it!#idk maybe im just stubborn. or people REALLY need to grow thicker skin and lighten up #there is almost ALWAYS gonna be problems with something you like. learn to not give a shit and have fun anyway

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postcard-from-the-past · 9 months

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Students from a High School in Frankfurt

German vintage postcard from 1934

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lafseanchai · 2 months

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@astriiformes was working on homework last night while hanging out at my house. At one point, he turned his laptop towards me, and showed me the title of an article he has just found.

"Deliver This Horse From Evil: The Ritual Aspects of Responses to Veterinary Disease in the Late Middle Ages"

Somehow this is exactly up my alley.

#i read it today and it was really interesting!#apparently the main disease was farcy or glanders which I know nothing about since it got wiped out in the US and Europe and Australia #since the '70's #but vet med was about the same as human med at thr time #what is making me excited is that Heilung has a song called Nesso #which is a spell/prayer to cast out illness out of a horse's leg #it is in high old german which was in use around the same time that the article's sources are from #Nesso mean worm and the song references 'nine worms'#and there is one recorded cure that went 'St Job had nine worms that grieved him much’#and repeating it counting down until there were no worms and hopefully the disease will have been stopped and driven out of the horse #it is just an unexpected connection and I love it

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schadenfreudich · 4 months

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"Hmm, that word looks weird", I say and do something else for a minute before looking at it again and realizing I wrote "schwächer" as "swächer".

#to be fair to myself. schwach was written as swach in middle high german. so i'm just multiple centuries late #(don't tell wolfgang that or he'll start joking about me being millennia old again)#(no. i'm joking)#-franz

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mysweetoddbird · 4 months

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looking up the history of the letter w cause i got curious and anyway did yall know it can be used as a vowel

#diarytag #which. makes sense bc its sound is derived from a vowel #anyway it wasnt included in the original inhereted Latin alphabet #and at the time the U and V sounds were indistinct fron each other #and V made the cound we commonly associate w W #but when classical latin developed the th sound as a combination of the B and V sounds #the V was no longer adequate to convey it #so people just started using 2 Vs back to back like so: VV #in Old High German. which eventually morphed into the W of our current alphabet and is also where it gets its name #anyways its used a vowel mainly in Welsh and Cornish #which does mean we get to use it that way in english thru a couple of welsh loanwords

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