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Ribe healing-stickThe Ribe healing stick (with Rundata signum DR EM85;493, also known as DK SJy41) is a pinewood stick found at Ribe, Denmark, with a heavily pagan-inspired Christian spell. It dates to circa 1300 CE.[1] Description Although ostensibly Christian, the charm written on the stick contains several native Germanic elements, such as alliteration and phrases also known from pagan poetry. The phrase 'nine needs' (ni : no=uþær) appears in several explicitly pagan charms, such as the Swedish Sigtuna plate 1[2] and the Icelandic spell-book Galdrabók. The term læknæshand ("healing hand") is found in a pagan prayer in the Icelandic poem Sigrdrífumál, while the phrase "heavens above" or "high heaven" (uphimæn, literally "up-heaven") is used in Vǫluspá and in Old Saxon and Old English religious poetry as well as in the inscription on the Skarpåker Stone.[3][4] InscriptionThe stick has five sides. The final part of line C (after ¶r) has been scraped off with a knife, but faint traces of the runes are still visible. The following readings are from the Scandinavian Runic-text Database.[1] Note that because the fifth side only contains the words þæt : se, it has been included in line D. §A ᛭
io=rþ Iorþ :
biþ biþ a=k ak :
ua=rþæ uarþæ :
o=k ok :
uphimæn uphimæn, :
so=l sol :
o=k ok :
sa=nt=æ santæ maria Maria :
o=k ok :
salfæn sialfæn :
gud| Guþ |drotæn drottin, :
þæt þæt han han :
læ læ mik mik :
læknæs:ha=nd læknæshand :
o=k ok lif:tuggæ lif-tungæ :
at= at =liuæ liuæ I pray Earth to guard and High Heaven, the sun and Saint Mary and Lord God himself, that he grant me medicinal hands and healing tongue to heal §B uiuindnæ biuianda :
þær ær :
botæ bota :
þa=rf þarf :
or or :
ba=k bak :
o=k ok or or brʀst bryst, :
or or lækæ likæ :
o=k ok or or lim lim, :
or or øuæn øwæn :
o=k ok or or øræn øræn, :
or or :
a=llæ allæ þe þe :
þær þær :
ilt ilt :
kan kan i i at at the Trembler when a cure is needed. From back and from breast, from body and from limb, from eyes and from ears, from wherever evil can §C kumæ kumæ. :
suart Svart :
hetær hetær :
sten sten, :
ha=n han :
stær stær :
i i :
hafæ hafæ :
utæ utæ :
þær þær :
ligær ligær :
a a :
þe þe :
ni ni :
no=uþær nouþær, :
þæ¶r þær :
l---r(a) … :
(þ)en-nþþæþeskulhuærki … enter. A stone is called Svartr (black), it stands out in the sea, there lie upon it nine needs, who … §D skulæ skulæ :
huærki huærki :
søtæn søtæn :
sofæ sofæ :
æþ æþ :
uarmnæn uarmæn :
uakæ uakæ :
førr førr æn æn :
þu þu :
þæssa þæssæ :
bot bot :
biþær biþær, :
þær þær :
a=k ak o=rþ orþ :
at at kæþæ kæþæ :
ro=nti ronti. :
amæn Amen :
o=k ok :
þæt þæt :
se se. ᛭
shall neither sleep sweetly nor wake warmly until you pray this cure which I have proclaimed in runic words. Amen and so be it. Gallery
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