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Detmold

Weh, das war ein grosses Morden.
Sie erschlugen die Kohorten.
Nur die Römische Reiterei Rettete sich in das Frei.
Denn sie war zu Pferde.

Notgeld der Stadt Detmold
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Ah, it was an awful slaughter,
And the cohorts ran like water;
But of all the foe that day,
The horeseman only got away,
Because they were on horseback.*

History | Scherenschnitt

*Translation by Charles Leland (1872) from
Gaudeamus!: Humorous Poems
By Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Folksong detailing the 9th Century BC Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in which the Roman general, Publius Quinctilius Varus, who suffered disastrous defeat by Germanic tribes, then took his own life.

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