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Old English Dictionary Entry

ælf-siden

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1 ælf-siden

f. The influence of elves or of evil spirits, the nightmare; impetus castalidum, diaboli incubus :-- Ðis is se hálga drænc wið ælfsidene and wið eallum feóndes costungum this is the holy drink against elfin influence and all temptations of a fiend, Lacn. 11; Lchdm, iii. 10, 23. Wið ælfsidenne, L. M. 1, 64; Lchdm, ii. 138, 23. ælf-siden
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚫᛚᚠ-ᛋᛁᛞᛖᚾ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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