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Owners’ names for their swords. | 1 |
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(1) AGRICANE’S was called Tranch’era. Afterwards BRANDEMART’S. | 2 |
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(2) ALI’S sword was Zulfagar. | 3 |
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(3) ANTONY’S was Philippan, so named from the battle of Philippi. (Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 4.) | 4 |
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(4) ARTEGAL’S was called Chrysa’or. (Spenser: Faërie Queene.) | 5 |
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(5) ARTHUR’S was called Escalibar, Excalibar, or Caliburn; given to him by the Lady of the Lake. | 6 |
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(6) SIR BEVIS’S OF HAMPTOUN was called Morglay. | 7 |
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(7) BITEROLF’S was called Schrit. | 8 |
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(8) BRAGGADOCHIO’S was called Sanglamore. (Faërie Queene.) | 9 |
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(9) CÆSAR’S was called Crocea Mors (yellow death). (See Commentaries, bk. iv. 4.) | 10 |
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“Erat nomen gladio ‘Croc&echeck;a Mors’ qua nullus eyadebat vivus qui eo vulnerab tur.”—Geoffrey of Monmouth, iv. 4. |
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(10) CHARLEMAGNE’S were Joyeuse or Fusberta Joyo’sa, and Flamberge; both made by Galas. | 11 |
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(11) THE CID’S was called Cola’da; the sword Tizo’na was taken by him from King Bucar. | 12 |
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(12) CLOSAMONT’S was called Hauteclaire, made by Galas. | 13 |
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(13) DIETRICH’S was Nagelring. | 14 |
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(14) DOOLIN’S OF MAYENCE was called Merveilleuse (wonderful). | 15 |
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(15) ECK’S was called Sacho. | 16 |
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(16) EDWARD THE CONFESSOR’S was called Curta’na (the cutter), a blunt sword of state carried before the sovereigns of England at their coronation, emblematical of mercy. | 17 |
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(17) ENGLISH KINGS’ (the ancient) was called Curta’na. | 18 |
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(18) FRITHIOF’S was called Angurva’del (stream of anguish). | 19 |
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(19) HACO I.’S OF NORWAY was called Quern-biter (foot-breadth). | 20 |
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(20) HIEME’S was called Blutgang. | 21 |
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(21) HILDEBRAND’S was Brinning. | 22 |
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(22) IRING’S was called Waskë. | 23 |
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(23) KOLL, THE THRALLS, Greysteel. | 24 |
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(24) LAUNCELOT OF THE LAKE’S, Ar’oundight. | 25 |
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(25) MAHOMET’S were called Dhu’ l Fakar (the trenchant), a scimitar; Al Battar (the beater); Medham (the keen); Halef (the deadly). | 26 |
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(26) MAUGIS’S or MALAGIGI’S was called Flamberge or Floberge. He gave it to his cousin Rinaldo. It was made by Wieland. | 27 |
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(27) OGIER THE DANE’S, Courtain and Sauvagine, both made by Munifican. | 28 |
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“He [Ogier] drew Courtain, his sword, out of its sheath.”—Morris: Earthly Paradise, 634. |
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(28) OLIVER’S was Haute-Claire. | 29 |
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(29) ORLANDO’S was called Durinda’na or Durindan, which once belonged to Hector, and is said to be still preserved at Rocamadour, in France. | 30 |
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(30) OTUEL’S was Corrougue (2 syl.). | 31 |
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(31) RINALDO’S was called Fusberta or Flamberge (2 syl.). (See above, MAUGIS.) | 32 |
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(32) ROGERO’S was called Balisarda. It was made by a sorceress. | 33 |
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(33) ROLAND’S was called Durandal, made by Munifican. This is the French version of Orlando and Durandana. | 34 |
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(34) SIEGFRIED’S was called Balmung, in the Nibelungen-Lied. It was made by Wieland. Also Gram. Mimung was lent to him by Wittich. | 35 |
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(35) SINTRAM’S was called Welsung. | 36 |
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(36) STRONG-I’-THE-ARM’S, Baptism, Florence, and Graban, by Ansias. | 37 |
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(37) THORALF SKOLINSON’S—i.e. Thoralf the Strong, of Norway—was called Quern-biter (foot-breadth). | 38 |
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(38) WIELAND. The swords made by the divine blacksmith were Flamberge and Balmung. | 39 |
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