Phol endi Wódan Phol and Wódan vuorun zi holza, went to the wood, da wart demo Balderes volon then of Balder’s colt sin vuoz birenkit; the foot was wrenched; thu biguolen Sinthgunt, then Sinthgunt charmed him, Sunná era suister, and her sister Sunna, thu biguolen Frúá, then Frua charmed him, Vollá era suister, and her sister Folla, thu biguolen Wódan, then Wóden charmed him, só he wola conda: as he well could do: sosé bénrenki, sóse bluotrenki, both wrench of bone, and wrench of sosé lidirenki; blood, bén zi béna, and wrench of limb; bluot zi bluoda, bone to bone, lid zi geliden, and blood to blood, sóse gelímida sín. limb to limb, as if they were glued together. The general character of this poem is one well known to us: there are many Anglosaxon spells of the same description. What makes this valuable beyond all that have ever been discovered, is the number of genuine heathen names that survive in it, which in others of the same kind have been replaced by other sanctions; and which teach us the true meaning of those which have survived in the altered form. In a paper read before the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Grimm identified Phol with Baldr[682], and this view he has further developed in the new edition of his Mythology[683]. It is confirmatory of this view that we possess the same spell in England, without the heathendom, and where the place of the god Baldr is occupied by that of our Lord himself. The English version of the spell runs thus: The lord rade, and the foal slade; He lighted and he righted; set joint to joint and bone to bone, sinew to sinew. Heal, in the Holy Ghost’s name[684]! ----- Footnote 682: “Ueber zwei entdeckte Gedichte aus der Zeit des deutschen Heidenthums. Von Jacob Grimm.” Vorgelesen in der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, am 3 Febr. 1842, pp. 10, 11. Footnote 683: Deut. Mythol. p. 205. Footnote 684: Chalmers’s Nursery Tales. -----