Here cometh up Dame Hulde with the snout, to wit, nature, and goeth about to gainstay her God and give him the lie, hangeth her old ragfair about her, the straw-harness; then falls to work and scrapes it featly on her fiddle. Jakob Grimm [27] notes that Thunar Thor makes rain in a similar fashion, implying for Frau Holle a very high rank in the pantheon. Grimm based his theory of Holda on what he took to be the earliest references to her: An 11th century interpolation to the Canon Episcopi by Burchard of Worms , and pre-Christian Roman inscriptions to Hludana that he tentatively linked to the same divinity. Isotow zu sehen. University of Pittsburgh.
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