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Weft now holds 72 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Grímnismál, Old Norse, about 950.

Weft now holds 73 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Lokasenna, Old Norse, about 1000.

Weft now holds 71 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Vafþrúðnismál, Old Norse, about 950.

Weft now holds 70 works in 27 languages.

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• Hávamál, non, 800s–900s. Updated.

Weft now holds 70 works in 27 languages.

This time:

• Die Zauberflöte, German of the Vienna stage, 1791, 1791.
• Einstein, E = mc², German of 1905, 1905. Updated.

Weft now holds 69 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Le nozze di Figaro, Italian of the opera house, 1786.

Weft now holds 66 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Rights of Man (1789), French of 1789, 1789.
• Communist Manifesto, German of 1848, 1848.
• Unua Libro, Esperanto of 1887, 1887.
• La Marseillaise, French of 1792, 1792.
• Nicene Creed, Koine Greek, 381.

Weft now holds 68 works in 27 languages.

New this time:

• Verdi, two numbers, Italian of the opera house, 1853 and 1887.
• Einstein, E = mc², German of 1905, 1905.

Weft now holds 61 works in 26 languages.

New this time:

• Caminha’s letter, Portuguese of 1500, 1500.

Weft now holds 61 works in 26 languages.

This time:

• Caminha’s letter, Portuguese of 1500, 1500. Updated.

Weft now holds 58 works in 25 languages.

New this time:

• Daniel 5, Biblical Aramaic, 160s BC.

Weft now holds 60 works in 26 languages.

New this time:

• Os Lusíadas, Portuguese of 1572, 1572.

Weft now holds 59 works in 25 languages.

New this time:

• Rights of Woman, French of 1791, 1791.

Weft now holds fifty-seven works in twenty-four languages. New this week:

• The Secret History of the Mongols, sections 1-10, from the wolf and the doe to Alan Qo’a’s sons. The text is the Ming transcription in Chinese characters, with the Ming editors’ own word-by-word glosses. Middle Mongolian.
• The calling of the Varangians, the Rus’ Primary Chronicle for 859-862. Old East Slavic.
• The Gospel of Mark 1:1-20 in Sahidic Coptic, with Horner’s 1911 translation from the Coptic.
• The Kites and the Crows, a Swahili tale Edward Steere printed in Zanzibar in 1870.
• The General Act of the Berlin Conference, 1885: the preamble, free trade in the Congo basin, and the articles on effective occupation. The sound layer is new: French as an educated Parisian read a formal text aloud in the 1880s, after Passy and Littré.
• Two charters of Saer de Quincy, earl of Winchester, in English Latin of the early thirteenth century.

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