The Book of the Sword

Note 85 — Chapter II · MAN’S FIRST WEAPONS—THE STONE AND THE STICK. THE EARLIEST AGES OF WEAPONS. THE AGES OF WOOD, OF BONE, AND OF HORN.

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Wilde writes: ‘Sceana, which is the plural of scjan, a knife,’ the Scotch sgian-dhu, or skene (Rev. Paul O’Brien’s Practical Grammar and Vocabulary of the Irish Language, Dublin: Fitzpatrick, 1809).’

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