Author: Davidson, Hilda Roderick Ellis
Title: The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature
Description: Rochester, New York, U.s.a. Boydell and Brewer, corrected edition 1994, 1994. Hardcover. Fine Boydell Hardcover Near Fine Dust Jacket Unclipped. NOT a library copy. NO chips NO Underlines. Small crease in rear inner flap of dust jacket else Fine. Clean pages. NO plates NOT Clipped writing! First Revised Boydell Press Edition. Nothing better written than this great scholars history of the pattern-welded sword process. The Runic inscription etched blade and the Anglo-Saxon and Viking sword. H.R. Davidson is as inspired as she is knowledgeable. Plus Ewart Oakeshott crisp drawings and b/w plates brighter than the later cheaper reprints See our Three Geese In Flight Celtic and Norse Book scans. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: tolkien runes weapon magic odin sword runes viking swords saxon swords pattern welded arthurian excalibur norse blades seax odin forged in fire Medieval and Early Medieval Norse/Anglo Saxon/ Middle English/ Elizabethan/German


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