- e.g. Old
English guma, secg: Old
Norse gumi,
seggr "man"; Old
English heoru, mēce: Old
Norse hjǫrr, mækir "sword". Many
other languages,
ancient and...
- oferhelmað. þær mæg
nihta gehwæm / niðwundor seon, fyr on flode. ... Nis þæt
heoru stow! Well-rooted
trees /
overshadow the
water There one may each night...
- by
Jacob Grimm and others—derives the name from *heru- (Gothic: hairus;
heoru, a kind of sword). Hans Kuhn has
argued that the
derivational suffix -sk-...
- heroism. The same
sword is
called a guðsweord "battle-sword"
later on (2154a)
heoru (heoro, eor),
tentatively ****ociated with the name of Ares (identified with...
- efne swa micle, swa bið mægþa cræft,
wiggryre wifes be wæpnedmen, þonne
heoru bunden,
hamere geþruen,
sweord swate fah swin ofer
helme ecgum dyhtig andweard...
- Porter's "literal" 1991
translation Burton Raffel's free 1963
verse þonne
heoru bunden, | hamere geþruen,
sweord swate fāh | swin ofer
helme ecgum dyhtig...
- efne swa micle, swa bið mægþa cræft,
wiggryre wifes be wæpnedmen, þonne
heoru bunden,
hamere geþruen,
sweord swate fah swin ofer
helme ecgum dyhtig andweard...
- were
termed sweord,
although other terms used for such
weapons included heoru or heru, bill or bile, and mēce or mǣce. Anglo-Saxon
swords comprised two-edged...
- efne swa micle, swa bið mægþa cræft,
wiggryre wifes be wæpnedmen, þonne
heoru bunden,
hamere geþruen,
sweord swate fah swin ofer
helme ecgum dyhtig andweard...
