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Schlafes Bruder
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German
Etymology
sleep's brother. The image is based on a stanza of the Lutheran hymn Du, o schönes Weltgebäude (1649): de Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder Come, o death, you brother of sleep, a reference to Thanatos, twin brother of Hypnos, the good of sleep. More recently popularized as the title of the 1992 novel Schlafes Bruder, and its 1995 film adaption.
Noun
de noun m des Schlafes Bruder
de poetic Death
See also
de in Morpheus' Armen
de Death