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[tree_and_leaf]

I have just read two seperate thirteenth century Middle High German poems which refer to Mary as the weasel who bore the ermine (Christ) who killed the snake (Satan). I can't help thinking a mongoose would be somehow more impressive. Worryingly, I also find myself musing over an exegesis of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi as Christian allegory (only I can't work out where to fit in Darzi - John the Baptist? - or Chundra, who never came out into the corner of the room).

My brain is evidently on crack. Incense-scented crack. Or maybe it's too much batshit mediaeval poetry. Either way, not good.

I can see why the cult of Our Lady The Blessed Weasel never caught on, though.†

† Hey, maybe this proves that Voldemort will actually be destroyed by a Weasley? Somebody kill me now....

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[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

I saw your post while friendsfriendslist-browsing, and I wonder if you would mind posting the source for the poems? (now I want an Our Lady The Blessed Weasel icon...)

[tree_and_leaf]

They're both Middle High German: the older is Konrad von Würzburg's Goldene Schmied, and the newer 'Frauenlob' (also known as Heinrich von Meissen)'s Marienleich, where, however, it just gets one line.

Konrad von Würzburg. Die Goldene Schmiede. Ed Edward Schröder. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1926.
Frauenlob (Heinrich von Meissen) Leichs, Sangsrpüche, Lieder. 1 Teil Einleitung, Texte, 2. Teil Apparate, Erläuterungen. Ed and introduced by Karl Stackmann and Karl Bertau, based on work by Helmuth Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 1981.

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Thanks!