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fernando · 7th January 2013, 06:57 PM

Let me play the ignorant, Rob

Searching (PDF) the work "Romeo and Juliet" by W. Shakespeare (1591) the term seax doesn't appear; only dagger, knife, sword ...
Surprisingly the (circa 5000 pages) "Oxford Universal Dictionary" (1933-1969) doesn't contain this term.
One can see in Wikepedia that the term seax is Old English, a language form that spans between V-XII centuries.
Most probably you will soon find evidence that the term was dropped during the period you well suspect

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7th January 2013, 06:57 PM	#2
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Let me play the ignorant, Rob Searching (PDF) the work "Romeo and Juliet" by W. Shakespeare (1591) the term seax doesn't appear; only dagger, knife, sword ... Surprisingly the (circa 5000 pages) "Oxford Universal Dictionary" (1933-1969) doesn't contain this term. One can see in Wikepedia that the term seax is Old English, a language form that spans between V-XII centuries. Most probably you will soon find evidence that the term was dropped during the period you well suspect .