The Lacnunga ('Remedies') is a collection of miscellaneous Anglo-Saxon medical texts and prayers, written mainly in Old English and Latin. The title Lacnunga...

heroic protagonists; and finally at the mythic level. Tolkien knew the Lacnunga, the Old English book of spells; it may have suggested multiple features...

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 manuscripts, such as Bald's Leechbook and the Lacnunga, all of which date from the Christian era. Written evidence shows that...

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)...

century CE. It is part of the Anglo-Saxon medical compilation known as Lacnunga, which survives in the manuscript Harley MS 585 in the British Library...

charms "Against a dwarf" (Old English: Ƿið dƿeorh) are contained within the Lacnunga, which seek to heal an afflicted person by ridding them of a dwarf. The...

Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine. Illustrated Specially from the Semi-Pagan Text Lacnunga (Oxford University Press, 1952); Felix Grendon, Anglo-Saxon Charms (Folcroft...