Citations:war-wood

English citations of war-wood

Noun: "(poetic) a spear or shield"

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• 1855, Beowulf, translated by Benjamin Thorpe, in The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, The Scôp or Gleeman's Tale, and The Fight at Finnesburg, James Wright (1855), page 84:

  […] there on the bench was, over the noble, easy to be seen his high martial helm, his ringed byrnie, and war-wood stout.

• 1855, The Fight at Finnesburg, translated by Benjamin Thorpe, in The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, The Scôp or Gleeman's Tale, and The Fight at Finnesburg, James Wright (1855), page 227:

  […] the birds sing, the cricket chirps, the war-wood resounds, shield to shaft responds.

• 1887, William Morrow, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, Ellis White (1887), page 362:

  And the war-cries ran together, and no man his brother knew,

  And the dead men loaded the living, as he went the war-wood through;

• 1889, Cynewulf, Elene, translated by James M. Garnett, in Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; and Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon: Anglo-Saxon Poems, Ginn & Company (1889), page 2:

  They rode 'round the valiant: then rattled the shield,

  The war-wood clanged: the king with host marched,

• 1910, Beowulf, translated by Francis B. Gummere, in Epic and Saga: Beowolf, The Song of Roland, The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel, The Story of the Volsungs and Niblungs (ed. Charles W. Eliot), P. F. Collier & Son (1910), page 57:

  by word and by work, that well I may serve thee,

  wielding the war-wood to win thy triumph