- The
Lacnunga ('Remedies') is a
collection of
miscellaneous Anglo-Saxon
medical texts and prayers,
written mainly in Old
English and Latin. The
title Lacnunga...
-
explored what that jest
might have been; an 11th-century
medical text
Lacnunga ("Remedies")
contains the Old
English phrase wid
smeogan wyrme, "against...
- Page
recording a
charm against a dwarf, from the
Lacnunga collection, in
which the
dwarf is
referred to as a wiht....
- Ottar. The Wið færstice text from the late 10th or
early 11th
century Lācnunga is an Old
English remedy against harm
caused by
several beings including...
- from the
surviving medical m****cripts, such as Bald's
Leechbook and the
Lacnunga, all of
which date from the
Christian era.
Written evidence shows that...
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century CE. It is part of the Anglo-Saxon
medical compilation known as
Lacnunga,
which survives in the m****cript
Harley MS 585 in the
British Library...
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aiming to rid the ill
person of the disease,
identified as a dwarf. The
Lacnunga contains the Anglo-Saxon
charm Wið
Dweorh XCIIIb (Against a
Dwarf XCIIIb)...
- Roffensis)
Charters Canons of
Edgar Fonthill Letter Scientific texts Leechbook Lacnunga Leechbook III Byrhtferth's
Manual Old
English Herbarium Ecclesiastical...
- færstice ("against a
stabbing pain"), from the tenth-century
compilation Lacnunga, but most of the
attestations are in the tenth-century Bald's Leechbook...
-
charms "Against a dwarf" (Old English: Ƿið dƿeorh) are
contained within the
Lacnunga,
which s**** to heal an
afflicted person by
ridding them of a dwarf. The...
