seax

Like men, free women would also carry a seax as a sign of their freedom.

More than five hundred years old, the dagger was known as a seax.

Short weapons, such as the ubiquitous seax, could also be used in the tight quarters of the wall.

The Saxons may have derived their name from seax, a kind of knife for which they were known.

The type associated with Vikings is the so-called broken-back style seax.

A wealthier man might own a larger seax, some being effectively swords.

The seax is an iron knife with a single cutting edge and a long tapering point.

Long seaxes, which arrived at the end of the 7th century, were the longest of the seax.

The other type was the seax.

This variant form is used in the futhorc given on the Seax of Beagnoth.

The general trend, as one moves from the short to the broad seax, is that the blade becomes heavier, longer, broader and thicker.

They avoid as much as possible any kind of relationship with Seax Wicca or druidry.

The seax was a Germanic tool/weapon that was also similar in function, although different in shape.

The word 'Saxon' is thought to come from the word seax, meaning a mixture of single-edged knives.

Another typical form of the seax is the so-called broken-back style seax.

On the basis of the Beowulf quotation it may be that "Beagnoth" was the Seax's original owner's name.

The seax, a short knife with a metal blade used for close combat by the Germanic tribes throughout the 1st millennium AD.

Their name, derived from their weapon called Seax, a knife, is first mentioned by the Roman author Ptolemy (about 130).

Atypical broad seax - Same as heavy broad seax.

The Seax was in widespread use among the Migration period Germanic tribes, and is even eponymous of the Saxons.

Narrow seax - Often have braided bands or snakes engraved in the blade, and frequently include metal bolsters and pommels.

It was from this group that the first coven he joined emerged, which was based on Buckland's Seax Wicca.

That the name is that of the smith who forged the seax, as swords from the Dark Ages often had their maker's name engraved on them.

The word sax (Old English seax, dagger, short sword) was the final choice in the draft after rejection of 'blade', 'knife' and 'dagger'.

The panel on one side of the seax is filled with a lozenge pattern in silver and copper, which may have been meant to simulate pattern welding.