File:The Second Merseburg Charm

While almost all the valuable written evidence for the pre-Christian gods of northern Europe comes from Old Norse sources, one of the most significant and interesting exceptions is the Second Merseburg Charm, written in Old High German (with an admixture of Low Saxon language features).

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