Metrical Charm 3: Against a Dwarf

Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas WordGumbo: Old English Dictionaries [External Site] Index Previous Next Metrical Charm 3: Against a Dwarf Verse Indeterminate Saxon - Wið dweorh man sceal niman VII lytle oflætan, swylce man mid ofrað, and writan þas naman on ælcre oflætan: Maximianus, Malchus, Iohannes, Martimianus, Dioni- sius, Constantinus, Serafion. þænne eft þæt galdor, þæt - 5 - her æfter cweð, man sceal singan, ærest on þæt wynstre eare, þænne on þæt swiðre eare, þænne bufan þæs mannes moldan. And ga þænne an mædenman to and ho hit on his sweoran, and do man swa þry dagas; him bið sona sel. Her com in gangan, in spiderwiht, - 10 - hæfde him his haman on handa, cwæð þæt þu his hæncgest wære, legde þe his teage an sweoran. Ongunnan him of þæm lande liþan; sona swa hy of þæm lande coman, þa ongunnan him ða liþu colian. þa com in gangan dweores sweostar; þa geændade heo and aðas swor - 15 - ðæt næfre þis ðæm adlegan derian ne moste, ne þæm þe þis galdor begytan mihte, oððe þe þis galdor ongalan cuþe. Amen. Fiað.