socketless

Updated: May 14, 2025

Thus, as regards weapons, the Homeric heroes are in the age of bronze, like them who slept in the tombs of the Mycenaean age. The line about Pandarus and the iron arrow-head may really be early enough, for the arrow-head is of a primitive kind socketless and primitive is the attitude of the archer: he "drew the arrow to his breast."

Andrew Lang - Homer and His Age