nithing-stake

Updated: June 8, 2025

Therefore I naysay the word of the War-brand that we should make this man a wolf's-head; for in so doing we shall show ourselves lesser-hearted than he is, and of no account beside of him; and his head on our hall-gable should be to us a nithing-stake, and a tree of reproach.

William Morris - The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men