In his belt was a short, heavy, one-edged sword, or rather a long knife, called the seax .
The (hup)-seax has often been found in Saxon graves on the hip of the skeleton.
So I leaned my staff against a tree, and drew the sharp seax from my belt.
Mine, too, was the baldric from which it hung, and mine was the seax that balanced it, close to the right hand in the belt.
However, I would not speak more of this to such as he, and I bade him cease his prating, and answer plainly my first question, laying my hand on my seax as if to draw it.
Her ears were full of the wild shouts of the besiegers and the shrieks of the injured, the awful clash of seax on helm, and hurtle and whiz of arrows.
Around and under the tangle, not touched by it, went the white and muscular shape of the Saxon and the swift seax went twice into the bosom of the African juggler with nets.
The seax hath many acquaintances who are willing to see him stay quietly in the belt.
Tostig and Wulf forced back the plunging colt into the hollow between the heaps, and Ulric walked forward, drawing hisseax as he went.
Couldst thou strike with thy seax if it were buried in a cave in Carmel?
The tough ashen shaft of the spear broke at the guard, and both bear and hero fell heavily, but Ulric arose with his seax in his hand.
Ulric, as he drove his seax to the hilt into the breast and through the heart of the colt.
My hand goeth often to the hilt of my seax and my blood is unquiet.
The smiters of my kindred have themselves been smitten," said Olaf, the son of Hakon, but he sat with a fierce fire burning in his eyes and his seaxlay bare at his side.
Seax in hand it would be a pleasure to meet Romans.
The claws of the bear wrenched away his shield as if it had been a piece of oaken bark, but the seax was driven in to the hilt, and as it came flashing out the life of the bear came with it.
In this they laid him, bending his swords and seax and breaking the shaft of his spear.
So will I," said Tostig, and his seaxwas in his hand quickly.
The jarl's signal had been heard by a man upon whom was only a belt, to which hung a sheathed seax and a war horn.
He said no more, but seated himself and began to sharpen his seaxon a smooth, hard stone.
I said no more, but left him staring after me with the seax in his hand, and rode on my way, thinking most of all of the peril that was about Owen, and longing to be back with him that I might guard him.
He was dressed in leather like our shepherds, and like them carried but quarterstaff and seax for weapons.
Ay, with that seax you gave me back at the Caerau wolf's den.
Two steps took me to the menhir, and I drew my seax that I might do as he asked me.
And as I drew my seax and went to cut the lashings he writhed afresh and cried piteously for mercy in what sounded like bad Saxon from behind the cloth across his face, as though he deemed that I came to slay him.
Yet I had to lean heavily on my seax as I cut, and it was no light task, as I stood sidewise that I might not lose sight of Morfed.
And idly I began to sharpen my seax again on a great square stone that was handy in the wall as I sat, but it was very soft, and crumbled away under the steel without doing it much good.
He looked like a poor franklin in his rough brown jerkin and leather-gartered hose, and broad hat, and he bore no weapon but a short seax in his belt, and a quarterstaff, and there was nought about him to claim notice.
To remember this foul treason, knives were long hight seax amongst the English, but names alter as the world moves on, and men recall no more the meaning of the past.
When the story of the seax was forgotten, men spoke again of their knives, and gave no further thought to the shame of their forefathers.
So Arngeir came with Raven, who went for him, and my father told him what he needed to be done; and Arngeir said that it was well thought of, and went to work with his seax on the smooth turf.
The seax was the heavy, curved dagger carried by men of all ranks.
I suppose he thinks that someone will stick a seax into some of us in all friendly wise while we are talking.
It would not do to go in our war gear into a peaceful city; and so we took but the seax that every Englishman wears, and the short travelling spear that all wayfarers use.
Still silent, the bard drew his seax and cut the strings with one blow.
Perhaps that was because, being in hunting gear and with naught more than the short sword and seax one always wears, we had no weapons, and were plainly on peaceful business.
Sighard looked once, and then threw himself on his knees, drawing his stout seax as he did so.
With spear butt and seax they were trying to undermine the stockade, and one could hear the creaking of the stout timbers as they tried to tear them down.
And then I knew that my own weapons lay beside me, and I sprang up, and grasped the sword and seax in haste to buckle them on.
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