I think, but have not been able to check, that the seax was typically sharp on one edge only, not both, like a sword. And somewhere in my mind an insistent voice is muttering something about an early Saxon leader called Seaxnot. Or possibly a god. I think they had a different founding god from other Germanic groups. Not Woden/Wotan/Odin.

My books are all either in boxes, or in double rows on bookshelves waiting to be ordered again, and I can't find a thing.

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