Leechcraft: Early English Charms, Plant Lore, and HealingAnglo-Saxon Books, 2000 - 539 ページ A comprehensive and detailed examination of every aspect of the early English approach to illness and healing, including a full list of the plants used and the properties they contain. Other themes include witchcraft, magic and paganism and appendices present healing theories, amulets, causes of disease, charms, dreams, omens and tree-lore. Three key Old English texts are reproduced in full, accompanied by new translations: Bald's Third Leechbook, the Lacnunga Manuscript, and 'The Old English Herbarium' Manuscript 5. This is a fascinating work of reference, packed full of information and interesting details. |
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adder's bite amulets Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon England Bald's Bald's Leechbook betony bið Bierbaumer boil buteran calls charm cnuca dæge Deos wyrt þe donne drenc drink dust dysse ealle gecnucude gemete genim þas wyrte genim þas ylcan genim þysse wyrte genim þysse ylcan geswel give hafað heafod healing Herb Herba hunige hyre innards Joðrum naman Lacnunga læt Latin leaf Leechbook leechdom mæge magical mugwort nædran slite nemneð Nine Herbs Charm Norse oððe OE Herbarium Old English pain plant names ponne poultice pound root sæd sare sare genim seaw seed shamanic slite smear smire smyre sona syle drincan sylfan take this plant tosomne tradition Vriend wætere Wið Færstice Wið þæt wine Wiþ wounds wunda wyll Wyrc wyrta wyrttruman þæra þære þæs þæt þæt sar þam þas ylcan wyrte þone þonne þysse ylcan wyrte า า