For a Swarm of Bees

Charm with ymbe is an old English bees blessing. He is (41 MS) delivers on a parchment, which is in the possession of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. John Mitchell Kemble took the manuscript and made it accessible Jacob Grimm. From English linguists, for example, Felix Grendon, a similarity of the spell with the Lorsch bees blessing was found.

Old English

The original version of the Anglo-Saxon spell Charm with ymbe is:

German translation

Interpretation

The award is aimed at a Swarming bees people and invites it to settle in the vicinity of the stick. Sigewif ( Pl? ) ( " Victory women " ) is a name for the bee, but was also seen as a term for battle maidens that could allegedly turn into bee -like creatures. The bees with their sting is compared with the armed with a spear Valkyrie. Jacob Grimm was to Sigewif in Old High German and Old Norse with siguwip sigrvif with linguistic equivalents. In recent research, it is assumed that the term Sigewif was for the queens. The Salutation Sigewif is here seen by linguist Henk Jongeboer as respectful polite form.

In the second part of the spell, the speaker evokes the bees do not fly in the forest, because they would develop there to a wild bee colony, which would be used by collectors of wild honey. The collection of wild honey is the bee-keepers are not allowed.