Helið/Heil/Heile

Helið is a God or Goddess mentioned in a few late sources and associated with the Cerne Abbey. The earliest of these sources is a tale about Augustine destroying her idol by William of Coventry. Located at the abbey is a holy spring which may have been there in the day of her worship there. John Leland writing in the sixteenth century associated Helith with the “Saxon Esculapius, or preserver of health.” The fact the names do resemble known Middle and Early Modern English words for health also adds some credence to this possibility this God or Goddess existed as an Anglo-Saxon Pagan deity.

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