The Old English Herbals Quotes

“In the gloom and solitude of the forest, “where the bitter wormwood stood pale grey” and where “the hoar stones lay thick,” the black, giant elves had their dwelling.”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“There is no mention of mistletoe as a sacred herb.”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil.”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“if a radish be eaten raw after fasting all day, no woman’s chatter the next day can annoy?”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“our ancestors were an uncommonly hardy race, for the majority of the remedies would kill any of us modern weaklings, even if in robust health when they were administered.”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“Anglo-Saxons created a vernacular literature to which the continental nations at that time could show no parallel,”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“time when grown men believed in elves and goblins as naturally as they believed in trees,”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals

“Our Saxon ancestors may have been a rude and hardy race, but they did not live in an age of materialism as we do.”
― Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals