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I was doing some research for a blade and came across a reference to the seax of Beowulf, but couldn't find it in the transation I read (abridged, you know. ) I was wondering if any of you know of references to it or any information that would help piece somthing together, Anglo-Saxon seaxs seem to deteriorate faster than thier Norse brothers, alas. I found that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote something on the subject, but haven't had time to track down a copy.
ben....i have no answer to your question.....but i was just reading your post and watching tv and the trailer for beowulf came on tv.....i actually got a chill.....this is the first time i ever saw the trailer too....it's not like it was on all night.....i hope you find your answer....i'm getting off this post befor osmething else happens......ryan
I didn't know about the movie untill this afternoon when I was looking for seax information, my family came home and told me they had seen a poster for it. It showed up on my email account as well. Weird.
Having just re-re-re-read the Burton Raffel translation of the Old English poem I can attest that, sadly, there are no descriptions of the weapons used. They do refer to a knife, I believe, in the (apocryphal?) section with the Dragon. But it lacks descriptions of design, geometry, ornamentation, etc. Maybe that's just Raffel.
Hi Ben. Try Ewart Oakshott's "Archaeology of Weapons" for the references you might be looking for. He spends a great deal of time in the period in question and has some solid stuff to say, backed by both historical and archaeological evidence...Should that be your desire.
Not complete texts, but sizable portions. Raffel's must be a popular (read: cheap) choice for schools. The keeper of the page notes that most of his hits come from people Googling "Beowulf by Burton Raffel" looking for fodder for term papers
As far as movies go Beowulf & Grendal that came out last year with Gerard Buttler is pretty darned good. They definately took some liberties but they stuck to the heart of the story and came out on the other side with a good flick.
Oakeshott makes a few mentions of the seax (sax) in "Archiology of Weapons" but doesn't have a section on them as such. Two illustrations that I remember are a migration era seax in it's wooden scabbard and a single edged, sword hilted Norweagan one which were also sometimes refered to as seaxs. I know that he referes to a story about an old Norse hero who digs a seax out of his host's father's grave that he had to do some dashing deed to get ownership of. Our hero, it is said, used it often in preference to his sword which had a b**chy personality and often gave him trouble in battle (likely excuse to stray with other cutting edge weapons, if you ask me). That would lead me to believe that said seax was a substancial weapon but no physical description was given of it in the story or Oakeshott didn't relay the details.
I'm reading a book on the Sutton Hoo find and it talks about how acidic the soil is on the East Anglican coast. They found all these great artifacts some of the wood survived barley and yet no bones. I think this also may figure into not finding any bone or antler grips on seaxs. The wood doesn't decay as fast as the bone.
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