A set of Old English instructions, with included diagram, for building a magical device with which to protect a bee-enclosure (apiary). It is attested in a Gallican Psalter from Winchester, where it is part of an Old English gloss that includes various charms for healing animals. The present item follows directly on one for protection from theft of bees. The user is instructed to take a knife and use it to inscribe the circular device depicted in the diagram on a malmstone, along with the Latin words it contains (certain numerals and the words contra apes ut salui [sic] sint et in corda eorum [sic] s[crib]am h[anc]). Next, one is to drive a stake into the center of the enclosure and impose the stone on the stake until only the writing surface remains visible.
Dunsæte is an anonymous legal document which calls itself an agreement (gerædnes) between English witan and Welsh people (Wealhðeode).
Latin-Old English glossary compiled in England in the late 7th century.
An Old English prose life of the Breton saint Machutus/Malo, adapted from the Latin original by Bili, a deacon at Alet. The composition of the vernacular version is likely to been connected with the community of Winchester, which had become home to a cult of a saint in the 10h and 11th centuries.
