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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2005-09-14 22:55:41
Subject: Re: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
This is a margin comment on: Torp, page b0409, entry 3
> Could somebody, please, translate this passage for me? Or if not the
> entire passage, the word "wicker." Also, what are
> Zauberer, Zauberin, and Zaubern?
All right.
vikkan m. [masculine] magician. Old English wicca m. magician, wicce female-magician (English witch); Middle German wicker magician, soothsayer; wicken to do magic; Germanic -kk- from Indo-European kn
. Compare Old English wîgol pertaining to soothsaying, wîglian to tell fortunes.
--Sean
Torp, page b0409, entry 3