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Benedictiones ad Mensas Complete Translation
I am glad to announce that the complete translation of the Benedictiones ad Mensas can now be downloaded from this blog. I think these Latin snippets from the eleventh century are quite enjoyable and may be useful in the living … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Herbs and Vegetables
Here is another piece from the eleventh–century collection of blessings for food, the Benedictiones ad Mensas by Ekkehart IV of St Gall. Following fruit, this addresses herbs and vegetables. I suspect the two parts may have been seen as belonging … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Fruit
Continuing the ongoing series of excerpts from the 11th-century Benedictiones ad Mensas by Ekkehart IV, we come to fruit: 176 May the gifts of God picked from trees be blessed Arboribus lecta sint dona dei benedicta 177 Faithful Christ, may … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Cakes
Today I have only time for a short post before the next hiatus as I prepare for another excursion. Things should become more normal again in September, I hope. Another brief excerpt from the Benedictiones ad Mensas: 159 May the … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Condiments
Today, another piece from the 11th-century Benedictiones ad Mensas by Ekkehart IV of St Gall. Blessings for condiments: 149 May this joyful blessing join the joyful moretum Iungatur lęto benedictio lęta moreto. 150 May grace enter into all these hot … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Milk and Honey
I am back from my trip to the seaside with no new recipes and my first genuine disappointment with German Youth Hostel cuisine. But there is a new post, continuing the ongoing list of excerpts from the 11th-century Benedictiones ad … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Game
The next section of Ekkehart IV‘s Benedictiones ad Mensas. After bread, many fishes, birds, and domestic animal meat, these are dedicated to game meat: 116 May this game meat blessed under the divine cross Sub cruce divina benedicta sit ista … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Birds
Here is finally more of the Benedictiones ad Mensas. This is the section on birds: 73 Bless, o Christ king, the birds that are equal to fish Piscibus ęquipares benedic rex Christe volucres 74 May the cross bless this bird … Continue reading →
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More Blessings for Fishes
Yet more from the 11th-century Benedictiones ad Mensas, completing the list of fish: 57 May a piece of such a large fish among our foods be blessed Pars tanti piscis nostris benedicta sit ęscis 58 May God not permit this … Continue reading →
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Blessings for Fishes
More from the 11th century Benedictiones ad Mensas: The first part of a series of blessings for fish 39 We eat these cooked fish blessed with the cross Hos pisces coctos cruce sumamus benedictos 40 Bless these fish, you, who … Continue reading →
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