The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
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
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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,
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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
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ðæt næfre þis ðæm adlegan
derian ne moste,
ne þæm þe þis galdor begytan
mihte,
oððe þe þis galdor ongalan cuþe.
Amen. Fiað.
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