Ieg er til freds at døden er vred Døden Suarer.
Ieg sagde dig ath du skulle vige Døden til Ammen oc BarnedDu Amme, kom hid met dit Barn Ammen Suarer.O Græselig død, ieg paa dig øber |
I don't care whether Death is angry Death Answers.I told you that you should retreat Death to the Nurse and the ChildYou Nurse, come hither with your child The Wet Nurse Answers.Oh terrible Death, I implore you |
He can always comfort me best. Death answers.Come now Kirstine Salemands, |
Once again a leaf is missing in Copenhagen's Dance of Death. The text (the red letters) has therefore been taken from Dødedantz, and the woodcut of the wet nurse with the child is taken from Des Dodes Dantz.
Click the little picture to the left to see the original page.
Notice, that the nurse comes before the journeyman, in contrast to the Lübeckian dances of death. In fact the child (with or without nurse) is always at the end of the dances of death, since the child is at the very bottom of the social hierarchy.
This means that Copenhagen's dance of death deviates from all other dances of death, and this is probably because Dodendantz is so jumbled that the Danish translater has gotten the impression that the journeyman is the last dancer. See the page Make Your Own Dance of Death to get part of the explanation of why Dodendantz is so jumbled.
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