Norse
In 1841, a scholar named Georg Waitz was cataloguing manuscripts in the cathedral chapter library at Merseburg when he found something unusual. In the margin of a 9th-century liturgical manuscript, written in Old High German, were two short healing charms. They were...
Norse
Every winter, across the German-speaking world, the dead ride through the night sky. In Middle High German they were called Wuotanes Her, Odin’s Army. In modern German, Wutendes Heer, the Furious Host, or Wilde Jagd, the Wild Hunt. The scholar Jacob Grimm...
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