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Seax
Seax
(also
sax, sæx, sex
,
latinized
sachsum
) is an
Old English
word for "
knife
". In modern
archaeology
, the term
seax
is used specifically for a type of
sword
or
dagger
typical of the
Germanic peoples
of the
Migration period
and the
Early Middle Ages
, especially the
Saxons
, whose name derives from the weapon.
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