Brewer'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.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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