Most of the objects are associated with weapons and war gear, e.g. 84 pommel caps and 71 hilt fittings from swords or seaxes a seax was a long fighting knife or short sword have been identified so far. ❋ Carla (2009)
In his belt was a short, heavy, one-edged sword, or rather a long knife, called the seax ... used for close quarters. " ❋ Robert Sharp (1879)
Against her side, beneath her cloak, she could feel the leather sheath of the seax and wondered if she would have the courage and swiftness to use it. ❋ Chadwick, Elizabeth (2004)
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. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Then came into my mind the words of my father, who would ever tell me that he is basest who would slay an unarmed foe, or smite a fallen man; and hastily I put back the seax again, lest I should be tempted to become base as men had said I was; for I hold treachery to be of the same nature as that of which my father warned me. ❋ Unknown (1884)
And for answer I threw my seax at him, and as he raised shield to stop it, for it flew straight and hard as a forester can throw, I leapt at him, going in under his shield, and he fell heavily, moving not, for my blow went home. ❋ Unknown (1884)
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. ❋ Unknown (1884)
He had sword and seax, but no helm, though that was on ❋ Unknown (1884)
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. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Sighard looked once, and then threw himself on his knees, drawing his stout seax as he did so. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Then I clad myself in all feasting finery, with Carl's handsome sword at my side, and a seax, which Ecgbert had given me to match it, also handy to my right hand in my belt. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Then we armed ourselves fully, donning mail shirt and steel helm, sword and seax and spear for myself; and leathern jack and iron-bound leathern helm, sword and seax, and bow and quiver for Erling -- each of us taking our round shields on our shoulders, over the horsemen's cloaks we wore. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Telling him, then, that I would not run the chance of his falling on me from behind, I took his dagger and the seax they had given me, and stuck them in the ground a full hundred yards away, and then bade him, when I was out of sight, crawl thither as best he might and so loose himself. ❋ Unknown (1884)
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. ❋ Unknown (1884)
So I leaned my staff against a tree, and drew the sharp seax from my belt. ❋ Unknown (1884)
On that they gave me a woodman's billhook, and a seax, [iii] such as the churls wear, and one thrust a good ash, iron-shod quarterstaff into my hands. ❋ Unknown (1884)
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. ❋ Unknown (1884)
Now Turkil would see my sword, and then my seax, and try my helm on his head, laughing when it covered his eyes, and I had almost bade him come to my hall at Cannington and there try the little weapons I had when I was his size, so much his ways took from me the thought of my trouble. ❋ Unknown (1884)
" Hey [want to] have seax [later]?" "[sure]!" ❋ My Name Is ********* (2017)
