a-wyrgda

a-wyrgda, m.n: the cursed, the Devil. (ah-WUERG-da / a-ˈwyrg-da)

Medieval manuscript image of St Peter, a tonsured man with a giant key, fending off a devil who wears a loincloth, has clawed feet and hands and holds an open book; the saint and the devil each grasp the arm of a man in between them.
New Minster Liber Vitae; England (Winchester), c. 1031; British Library, Stowe MS 944, f. 7r. [bl.uk]

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