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- Subclass of
- knife
- Material used
- antlers
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- Merowingian seaxes Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart.jpg
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- Seaxes
- time period
- Middle Ages
- used by
- Germanic people
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thumb|upright|Merovingian seaxes
A seax (; 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. The name comes from an Old English word for "knife".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “seax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.