[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2012-01-23 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mare" is a female horse in English too - which must I think have been in the head of Henry Fuseli when he painted The Nightmare.

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[identity profile] karinmollberg.livejournal.com 2012-01-23 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Har, "eine alte Mähr" could actually be both: old saga and mare which makes vague sense if one considers how horses were long the main means of transport...but I drift, as usual (love it;)

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