bleeding, and once again he turned to the Mother of God. His later remark, “There I would have died trusting in Mary,” mentions nothing about a vow.3 Luther used the time of recuperation learning to play the lute and copying music for that instrument. One does not get the impression that he was shaken by this event to the depths of his being. According to the descriptions of Crotus and Mathesius, the student also had something in himself of the “lively and jolly young fellow” and the musician. The