curtana

"We have very little direct trade with Curtana.

I'd say she's twelve hundred hours out of Windsor, on Curtana, now."

"It's over two thousand from Curtana to the nearest Old Federation planet."

In both of these cases, the Lord High Steward carried the Curtana.

Curtana (a medieval term for a ceremonial sword)

The Curtana is also known as the Sword of King Edward the Confessor.

He is on a mission to acquire the tip of Curtana aka "The Sword of Mercy".

Curtana, the sword of Ogier the Dane, according to Karlamagnus Saga.

"I'd been there twelve local days, three hundred Galactic Standard hours, and the run from Curtana was three hundred and twenty.

"If he left Curtana twelve hundred hours ago, he's still in hvperspace," Guatt Kirbey said.

Luckily most of the airmen and Curtana make it off the ship with little more than burns but some of the medicine was lost in the hurry to offload it.

Another legend, written about Curtana itself, claims that it, Durendal, and Charlemagne's Joyeuse are a set of three, leaving Almace's origins unexplained.

He served in the coronation of his cousin, King Edward II of England, on 25 February 1308, carrying Curtana, the sword of St Edward the Confessor.

Curtana, also Cortana or Courtain, is a Latinized form of the Anglo-French curtein, from Latin curtus, 'shortened', used for a ceremonial type of sword.

The first two symbolise the sovereign's relationship with church and state and the latter represents Curtana, the short sword of Ogier the Dane which he was warned to draw in mercy not in vengeance.

Ogier the Dane had a sword named Curtana which, according to legend, bore the inscription "My name is Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal."

Since this time she has campaigned 30 dogs to the title of Champion, and she and her daughter Julia bred and owned the all-time top winning King Charles, Champion Curtana Morgana.

Four Swords of State are used, and the Lord High Steward of Ireland carries one of these, the Sword of Mercy, which has a blunt tip, and is called thus the Curtana.

Meanwhile, a hideous man-like monster named The Skeleton, one of the "Others" that can cause pain with but a mere touch, looks for the missing tip of the sword Curtana- a.k.a. the Sword of Mercy.

Some legends claim that it was forged to contain the Lance of Longinus within its pommel; others state it was smithed from the same materials as Roland's Durendal and Ogier's Curtana.

Durendal was one of a set of three swords supposedly forged by Wayland and provided as ransom for a Norse captive, the other two being variously Bishop Turpin's sword Almace, Charlemagne's Joyeuse, or Ogier's sword Curtana.

"Prayers That Hurt: Public Prayer in Interfaith Settings," Military Chaplain's Review, 1987; expanded and reprinted in Curtana: A Journal for the Study of the Military Chaplaincy, inaugural edition (Vol 1, No. 1), Fall 2009.

However the Norse saga, the Karlamagnus saga expands this slightly, claiming that a sword called Kurt (better known as the Curtana), Almace and Durendal were three swords forged by the legendary Anglo-Saxon blacksmith Weyland, and presented to Charlemagne.

The book finishes with Curtana and Agraffe wonder what changes would befall the planet and Spearpoint after Nimcha has finished healing the mire and wonder what the Mad Machines were talking about when they mentioned Earthgate and going into the planet to reach the stars.