gáras sendon.

“I stood beneath my linden shield, beneath my light shield, where the mighty women exercised their power, and sent the yelling javelins!” Another spell from a MS. in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, appears to name them more distinctly:

Sitte ge, sígewíf,

sígað tó eorðan,

næfre ge wilde

tó wuda fleógan;

beó ge swá gemindige

mínes gódes,

swá bið manna gehwilc

metes and éðeles.