diff --git a/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua b/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
index 9d87f3f3e..584f8d3e2 100644
--- a/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
+++ b/scripts/eressea/xmlconf.lua
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ if config.rules then
     assert(0 == read_xml(confdir .. rules .. 'config.xml', confdir .. rules .. 'catalog.xml'), "could not load XML data, did you compile with LIBXML2 ?")
     assert(0 == eressea.config.read(rules .. 'config.json', confdir), "could not read JSON data")
 end
+eressea.game.reset()
diff --git a/src/bind_eressea.c b/src/bind_eressea.c
index 279ce8f4e..de8751306 100755
--- a/src/bind_eressea.c
+++ b/src/bind_eressea.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #include <kernel/config.h>
 #include <kernel/save.h>
 
+#include <util/language.h>
+
 #include <stream.h>
 #include <filestream.h>
 
@@ -16,6 +18,7 @@
 void eressea_free_game(void) {
     free_gamedata();
     init_resources();
+    init_locales();
 }
 
 int eressea_read_game(const char * filename) {