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14 September 2025
Elves
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Early Anglo-Saxon texts show the Old English term ælf , which morphed into our Modern English elf . The word was cognate with the Old Icela...
28 January 2022
Against a Sudden Stabbing Pain
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I want to talk about Wið færstice , an Old English medical text whose title is pronounced (roughly) "with fair-stitch-uh" and mea...
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