Cooijmans, Christian 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1039-5053
(2020)
Remembered Remedies from England? An Early Veterinary Charm at St. Gall.
Notes and Queries, 67 (1).
pp. 6-7.
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Abstract
Among the folios of a ninth-century miscellany held by the Abbey Library of St. Gall in present-day Switzerland (Cod. Sang. 732), a series of local annals known as the Annales Sangallenses breves (ASb) is accompanied by an anomalous formula, featuring in the space of four empty entries for the years 838–41: Vnion genip[ro]n genitul catulon contristuan feruan nain nati feruna neq[ue] sonus maris ia[m] non me tin pe.1 Added in a separate hand and ostensibly indifferent to the surrounding annalistic account, this largely unintelligible sentence comprises various enigmatic Latin(-sounding) elements, arranged in patterns of assonance, alliteration, and rhyme. For all intents and purposes, the passage appears performative in nature...
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2020 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 23:35 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/notesj/gjz188 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3099576 |
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