Elves in Anglo-Saxon England … Elves in Anglo-Saxon England Matters of Belief, Health,
Gender and Identity …

… Hall's study of elf lore in Anglo-Saxon England covers a great deal of … Anglo-Saxon, Old
Norse, and Celtic lore in a productive European mix. In their original state, Hall proposes, elves …

… Chapter 8 considers the Old English charm Wið færstice in a … the importance of elf-beliefs
in Anglo-Saxon healing. These … verse, whose mythological subject matter makes it in some …

… , but to avoid the good things associated with man. He … his religion, the Anglo-Saxon's notion
of "elf" was expanding under the influence of non-Germanic culture. So when, in Old English…

… Elves in Anglo-Saxon England is the first comprehensive treatment of early medieval ªlfe …
close reading of Old English texts understood as having something to do with elves. Alaric Hall …

… English sources with the Old Norse we will get a highly disparate picture of the belief in elves…
(sv elfshot)among other things says: "Disease supposed to be produced by the stroke of an …

… By the eleventh century, however, things had changed, and ælf had come to have … English.
Tracing these lexical changes allows us to trace changes in Anglo-Saxon nonChristian belief-…

… Although a book on elves reviewed in a folklore journal is by no means unusual, Elves in
Anglo-Saxon England might be initially seen as a peculiar addition to the Anglo-Saxon Studies …

… But in the case of elves there is never any check on … freely: JRR Tolkien's idea of an elf
has little in common with JK … that hostile views of elves existed in Anglo-Saxon England—the …

… Evidence for this dual agency in the formation of Anglo-Saxon religion in the tenth and
eleventh … The story illustrates well the issues surrounding conversion in late Saxon England. …