sweordes ecg
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Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sweord + eċġ. Has a parallel in Old Saxon swerdes eggia, possibly stemming from Proto-West Germanic *swerdas aggju. Compare mǣċes eċġ.
Noun
[edit]sweordes eċġ f
- (poetic) "sword's edge"
- w:Beowulf, verse 1104a-6b:
- Gyf þonne Frýsna hwylc frécnen sprǽce
ðæs morþorhétes myndgiend waére
þonne hit sweordes ecg syððan scolde.- If any Frisian were then to remind [them] with dangerous words of that murderous enmity, then it should thereafter be the sword's edge.
- w:Beowulf, verse 1104a-6b: