- ælfsogoða
- m (-n/-n) hiccough (thought to have been caused by elves); jaundice?; a disease ascribed to elvish influence, chiefly by the influence of the castalides, dúnelfen, which were considered to possess those who were suffering under the disease, a case identical with being possessed by the devil, as will appear from the forms of prayers appointed for the cure of the disease.
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.