3. THE ST. GALL INCANTATIONS.
(Cod. S. Galli No. 1395.)
Ni artu ni nim ni domnu ni muir arn6ib briathraib rolabrastar exist assachr(oich)* dluscart dim andelg delg diuscoilt cm ceiti mdim meinni b^ di bdim nand dodath scenn toscen todaig rogarg fiss 5 goibnen aird goibnenn renaird goibnenn ceingeth** ass:- Focertar indepaidse inim nadt^t iwuisce / fuslegar de immandelg immecuairt 7 nitdt foranairrinde nachforanalath 7 manibe andelg and dotdeth iwdalafiacail airthir achinn ;~ ;~ ;— :•
Afgalaf fiiail ;~ 10
Dumesurcsa diangalar" f6ailse dunesairc eu ^t dunescarat** eiiin 6nlaithi admai ibdach ;~ Focertar inso dogres imaigin hitabair thiial : • "
PreCHNYT</>CANft)MNYBVC : - KNAATYONIBVS : - FINIT : • w
Caput christi oculus isaise frons nassium n6e labia lingua salo- 15 monis collum temathei mens beniamin pectus pauli iunctus® iohannis fides abrache sanctus sanctus sanctus dominus dews sabaoth ;~ ;- ;~
a. Against a thorn.
Nothing is higher than heaven, nothing is deeper than the sea. By the holy words that Christ spake from His Cross remove from me the 20 thorn ^, a thorn very sharp is Goibniu's science, let Goibniu's goad go out before Goibniu's goad !
This charm is laid in butter which goes not into water*', and (some) of it is smeared all round the thorn, and it (the butter) goes not on the point nor on the wound, and if the thorn be not there one of the two 25 teeth in the front of his head will fall out.
b. Against urinary disease.
Against disease of the urine.
I save myself from this disease of the urine,... saves us, cunning birds, birdflocks of witches save us. 3°
This is always put in the place in which thou makest thy urine.
prechnytosan (i.e. praedicent) omnibus nationibus^.
c. Against headache.
Caput Christi, oculus Isaiae, frons nassium Noe, labia lingua Salomonis, collum Temathei, mens Beniamin, pectus Pauli, iunctus Iohannis, fides 35 Abrache Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- ↑ There is no mark of contraction, but the word stands close to the upper margin, and the mark may have been lost
- ↑ ge is written in a peculiar ligature, the top part of which at first sight looks like (b
- ↑ leg. with Thurneysen, dingalar
- ↑ leg. dunesarcat
- ↑ MS. unctus
- ↑ From delg to todaig is to us unintelligible. But see Windisch, Berichte der Konigl. Sachs. Gesellschaft, 1890, S. 95—97
- ↑ Zimmer KZ. 33, 146 note, compares the A.S. spell a>wer buteran...ne sie wi> woetre gemenged
- ↑ Matth. xxviii. 19
