1894 Brewer’s / S / Stone of Tongues
This was a stone given to Otnit, King of Lombardy, by his father dwarf Elberich, and had the virtue, when put into a person’s mouth, of enabling him to speak perfectly any foreign language. (The Heldenbuch.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.