The Lorsch Bee Blessing (German: Lorscher Bienensegen) is a bee-keeping prayer intended to bring home honey bees in good health to their hives. It is believed to have been written in the 9th century, and was discovered in a manuscript (on fol. 58r of the Pal. lat. 220 in the Vatican Library, a copy of the Apocalypse of Paul) from the monastery in Lorsch, Germany, famous for the Lorsch Codex. Despite being a Christian prayer written in Old High German, it has remarkable similarities to the Anglo-Saxon and apparently pagan "For a Swarm of Bees" (Old English "wiþ ymbe") magic charm. It may reflect a common pre-Christian Germanic cultural heritage.[1]
Pal. lat. 220 (Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) – digital facsimile (Bibliotheca Laureshamensis - digital)
Meinolf Schumacher: Majas Ahnfrauen? Über Bienen in der mittelalterlichen Literatur
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Grendon, Felix (1909), The Anglo-Saxon Charms, hdl:2027/njp.32101007059163
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