- Chaucer's
Romaunt of the Rose: "With
swerd, or
sparth (axe) or gysarme" and Mandeville's Travels: "with
swerds drawen and
gysarmez and axes") and the...
- Proto-Indo-European root *swer- "to wound, to cut".
Before about 1500, the
spelling swerd(e) was much more
common than sword(e). The
irregular loss of /w/ in English...
- to the
shoulder with
valuable rings, both
descending from the PIE root *
swerd-,
denoting the 'suspended sword'. Similarly, the word hand
could descend...
- the
context of
leisurely swordsmanship: [P]leying at þe two
hande swerd, at
swerd & bokelere, & at two
pyked staf, at þe
hurlebatte [...]. The 1538 Dictionary...
- and
folowed the Duc of
Burgoyn he ever
fleyng before them / And
there they sore
nioed the Contrey. w' fire and
swerd. — John Rouse,
Beauchamp Pageant...
- 184.
Malory writes in the
Winchester M****cript: "thenne he
drewe his
swerd Excalibur, but it was so
breyght in his
enemyes eyen that it gaf
light lyke...
- the high
medieval period,
references to
swords as "great sword" (grete
swerd,
grant espée) or "small" or "short sword" (espée courte,
parvus ensis) do...
- þis vndirstondinge: þat
preestis &
clerkis shulden not fiȝte bi
material swerd. neiþir
pleete neiþir
stryue bi
worldli manere aȝens
temporal lordis, takinge...
-
mangt eth
gamalt fädernis
swerd wart tha
nidher aff
naglom kränkt som ther
haffdo manga dagha hengt Them wart tha
venlika fölgt til
strand helsados wel...
- de Merlin, ed. H.
Oskar Sommer 1894, p. 99, p. 24 "thenne he
drewe his
swerd Excalibur, but it was so
breyght in his
enemyes eyen that it gaf
light lyke...
