gisarms

Updated: May 4, 2025

Well, said Sir Marhaus, then will I fight with him on foot; so on the morn Sir Marhaus prayed the earl that one of his men might bring him whereas the giant was; and so he was, for he saw him sit under a tree of holly, and many clubs of iron and gisarms about him.

Sir Thomas Malory - Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1

Then press we where his banner flieth, and, hemmed in by our pikes and gisarms and Giles's bowmen, he once our prisoner or slain, his great army would crumble and melt away, since they do serve but for base hire, whiles we, though few, do smite amain for home and children. O Roger man, could I but lure him into the green!" "Yet methinks there is a surer way, master." "How as how, Roger?"

Jeffery Farnol - Beltane the Smith