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There were the small round shield and spear of the earlier Saxon, with his vizorless helm, and the short curved knife or saex , from which some antiquarians deem that the Saxish men take their renowned name.
With his spear, and saex, and his shield, he stood before me; and his face, though pale as that of one long dead, was stern as the face of a warrior in the van of armed men; he stretched his hand, and he smote his saex on his shield, and the clang sounded hollow; the gyves broke at the clash I sprang to my feet, and I stood side by side with the phantom, dauntless.
"It rises in the midst of the flame, pale as the mist on the mountain, and vast as the giants of old; with the saex, and the spear, and the shield, of the sons of Woden. Thou hast seen the Scin-laeca," continued Hilda, looking full on the face of the Earl. "If thou deceivest me not," began Harold, doubting still. "Deceive thee! not to save the crown of the Saxon dare I mock the might of the dead.
"It rises in the midst of the flame, pale as the mist on the mountain, and vast as the giants of old; with the saex, and the spear, and the shield, of the sons of Woden. Thou hast seen the Scin-laeca," continued Hilda, looking full on the face of the Earl. "If thou deceivest me not," began Harold, doubting still. "Deceive thee! not to save the crown of the Saxon dare I mock the might of the dead.
There were the small round shield and spear of the earlier Saxon, with his vizorless helm, and the short curved knife or saex , from which some antiquarians deem that the Saxish men take their renowned name.
What was now the Hall, had evidently been the atrium; the round shield, with its pointed boss, the spear, sword, and small curved saex of the early Teuton, were suspended from the columns on which once had been wreathed the flowers; in the centre of the floor, where fragments of the old mosaic still glistened from the hard-pressed paving of clay and lime, what now was the fire-place had been the impluvium, and the smoke went sullenly through the aperture in the roof, made of old to receive the rains of heaven.
What was now the Hall, had evidently been the atrium; the round shield, with its pointed boss, the spear, sword, and small curved saex of the early Teuton, were suspended from the columns on which once had been wreathed the flowers; in the centre of the floor, where fragments of the old mosaic still glistened from the hard-pressed paving of clay and lime, what now was the fire-place had been the impluvium, and the smoke went sullenly through the aperture in the roof, made of old to receive the rains of heaven.
With his spear, and saex, and his shield, he stood before me; and his face, though pale as that of one long dead, was stern as the face of a warrior in the van of armed men; he stretched his hand, and he smote his saex on his shield, and the clang sounded hollow; the gyves broke at the clash I sprang to my feet, and I stood side by side with the phantom, dauntless.
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