Against a Dwarf

Dobbie, 1942 121-2; Dobbie, E.V.K., The Anglo-Saxon Minor Poems, ASPR 6 (New York); Grattan and Singer, 1952 160-62; Grattan, J.H.G. and Singer, C., Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine, Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum n.s. 3 (London).
 
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].