swerdes eggia
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Old Saxon[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From swerd + eggia. Has a parallel in Old English sweordes eċġ, possibly stemming from Proto-West Germanic *swerdas aggju. Compare mākies eggia.
Noun[edit]
swerdes eggia f
- (poetic) "sword's edge"
- w:Heliand, verse 4898:
- he suiltit imu eft swerdes eggiun
- he succumbed to death again by the sword's edge.
- w:Heliand, verse 4898: