A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon PoetryNumber of occurrences in corpus: 31
| A.4.2 78 | th hair tied up, took a sharp | sword, | / hardened in showers [of batt |
| A.4.2 89 | true faith, so that with this | sword | I may be permitted / to cut do |
| A.4.2 105 | e adversary / with a decorated | sword, | so that she carved / halfway t |
| A.4.2 289 | s our protector / slashed by a | sword, | beheaded.” Full of grief, / |
| A.4.2 336 | th ash-spears, Holofernes’s | sword | / and blood-stained helmet, li |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 2 1 | Ecgfrith fell by the hostile | sword | of the Picts, / behold, his ba |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 69 | of conflict / that turned the | sword | against an allied race / and d |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 112 | , was soon laid low by wicked | sword. | / Then the beloved young man r |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 302 | cut from his body by a pagan | sword, | / upon a stake. King Oswiu, hi |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 524 | yed walls and put folk to the | sword. | / Just as a torrent, swollen wi |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 552 | he fell under the victor’s | sword | and was killed. / Everywhere, |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 568 | rror, forcing others with the | sword, | / he bore his victorious stand |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1056 | wn the fair one with a bloody | sword | / but practiced lengthy tortur |
| ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 14 4 | bishop’s head with a sharp | sword; | / but the blessed man felt no w |
| ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.1 35 | horrendous wounds of a cruel | sword. | / And God, the omnipotent judg |
| ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.4 13 | ath, after he was struck by a | sword. | / But the lofty Father, who ri |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1255 | a warrior of Christ, after a | sword | had been drawn, would deny hi |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1832 | her pure innards with a rigid | sword, | / and purple blood at once flow |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1961 | , / punished his guilt with the | sword | of heaven’s wrath. / For, qui |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2420 | brandish / the blade on a drawn | sword, | spilling bloody streams / and c |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2464 | o shields of conflict / and the | sword | of the Word that slays the mo |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2632 | nd, about to shatter with her | sword | raging Anger’s / bloody skull |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 325 | be overcome by the conquering | sword | of faith. / But rather, the wo |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 506 | Ecgfrith fell to the hostile | sword | of the Picts / and his bastard |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 189 | ishops of the church with the | sword. | / These can be omitted, whom th |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 194 | y the savage penalties of the | sword. | / Soon they summon him, choosin |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 545 | defenders with an indomitable | sword. | / They blocked up two rivers w |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 787 | his own citizens and the hard | sword | / in his groin, entering right |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 855 | , “were given to the bitter | sword, | / or if javelins were pressed |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 969 | old nor through the rapacious | sword | of an enemy. / Then he soothed |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1104 | ifice myself to you by my own | sword.” | / This was the father’s plea, |