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atgeir

atgeir noun: a kind of spear-like polearm used by the Norse, conventionally translated as halberd, but of uncertain precise nature.

Noun

atgeir (plural atgeirs)

  1. A kind of spear-like polearm used by the Norse, conventionally translated as halberd, but of uncertain precise nature.
    • See 'Social and Political Structure'. halberd atgeir: Atgeir is translated as 'halberd', which it seems to have resembled even though no specimens of this combination of spear and axe have been found in archaeological excavations in[…]2004 September 30, Leifur Eiriksson, Egil's Saga, Penguin UK, →ISBN
    • The Atgeir The Atgeir was a 'spearlike spear' that was used before and through the Viking Age. One reference to the atgeir comes from Icelandic Sagas about the Viking hero Gunnar Hámundarson whom used an atgeir in Njál's Saga that would “sing” by making a ringing sound when it anticipated...2015, Njord Kane, The Vikings: The Story of a People, Spangenhelm Publishing, →ISBN

Examples of atgeir in a sentence

  • The Atgeir The Atgeir was a 'spearlike spear' that was used before and through the Viking Age.2015, Njord Kane, The Vikings: The Story of a People, Spangenhelm Publishing, →ISBN:
  • In Laxdaela saga one of the characters, twelve years old Hardbein Helgason, pierces with an atgeir a steel helmet on the head of his opponent (App. 19).2019, Daniel Jaquet, Matyas Miskolczi, Acta Periodica Duellatorum (vol. 7, issue 1), →ISBN, pages 36–37:

Forms of atgeir

pluralatgeirs

Origin of atgeir

From Old Norse atgeirr or Icelandic atgeir.

Questions about atgeir

What does atgeir mean?
Atgeir means a kind of spear-like polearm used by the Norse, conventionally translated as halberd, but of uncertain precise nature.
How do you use atgeir in a sentence?
The Atgeir The Atgeir was a 'spearlike spear' that was used before and through the Viking Age.
What part of speech is atgeir?
Atgeir is a noun.
What is the plural of atgeir?
The plural of atgeir is atgeirs.

Words near atgeir in the dictionary

  1. ATFs
  2. ATG
  3. atgar
  4. atgars
  5. ATGATT
  6. atgeir
  7. atgeirs
  8. ATGM
  9. ATGMs
  10. atgo
  11. atgoes

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