Charm Against
    the Wild Hunt 

    from the Christian Era 



    Mitteldeutscher oder Münchener
    Nachtsegen (14. Jhd.)



    Wutanes her und alle sîne man,

    di di reder und di wit tragen

    geradebreht und erhangen,

    ir sult von hinnen gangen.

    


    
Middle German charm or charm of Munich (14. century)

Woden's host and all his (its)* men
who are bearing wheels** and willow twigs***
broken on the wheel and hanged
you shall (must)**** go away from here.




        
      * semantically and grammatically both possible
    ** to be broken on the wheel was an old sacral death penalty. 
         The wheel was supposed to be the sun-wheel.
  *** used as a rope to hang the victims
**** shall:  not in the future sense, but in the sense of German "sollen".


original cited from:
Höfler, O.: Kultische Geheimbünde der Germanen, p. 226 



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