The seax is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger associated with the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons, who are thought to take their name from the weapon. Long seaxes appear in the archaeological record from around the seventh century. The seax was carried as a personal sidearm and utility blade as much as a battlefield weapon, and it later became a heraldic device, appearing in the coats of arms of Essex and the former county of Middlesex. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons
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A seax (Old English pronunciation: [ˈsæɑks]; also sax, sæx, sex; Latinized sachsum) is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons.
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In the continental Germanic area, the following types are defined for seaxes between roughly 450 and 800 AD, in chronological order:
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A seax (Old English pronunciation: [ˈsæɑks]; also sax, sæx, sex; Latinized sachsum) is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons.
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