seaxes

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.

Staffordshire Hoard Carla 2009

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.

Archive 2009-09-01 Carla 2009

Then we loosened our swords in their sheaths, and drew our seaxes, and went swiftly up the grassy lane.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Now we were not, for we had thought of no meeting such as this, and rode in woollen jerkins and the like, and had only our swords and seaxes, as usual; but for the moment I did not think that we should need either.

King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet 1884

Good cloaks they had also, and short seaxes in their belts.

A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884

That was wise counsel, and we left our arms in a baggage wagon, borrowing frocks from the churls who followed us, and only keeping our seaxes in our belts.

A Thane of Wessex 1884