Seax

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - seax

According to the Old English Dictionary:

seax
I. add :-- Gyf þé syxes genyódige, þonne sníð þú mid þínum fingre ofer þonne óþerne, swylce þú cyrfan wille, Tech. ii. 123, 3. Ðá gesæt hé (Cuthbert) æt mýsan, micclum onbryrd hé beseah tó heofonum, and his sex áwearp (cultellus quem tenebat decidit in mensam, Vit. Cuth. c. 34), Hml. Th. ii. 150, 23.

Related words: ǽder-, græf-, mete-, wíngeard-, writ-seax. seax-,seax

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