Elves in Anglo-Saxon England Quotes

“Mundi honor est a sliper thinge and an elvich.

Worldly fame is a treacherous and elvish thing.”
― Alaric Hall, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8)

“The text's construction of an ailment as the product of a conflict with supernatural beings...renarrates the suffer's experience in martial and heroic terms. If recited to victims of the illness, the charm had the potential to help them renegotiate their self-perception.”
― Alaric Hall, Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8)