Note 41 — Chapter XXI · THE DUEL
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For the worship of, and swearing by, weapons, see Du Cange, ‘Juramentum super arma,’ in Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis, iii. 1616 sq.; Grimm, Deutsche Rechtsalterthümer, pp. 165, 166, 896; Pollock, Oxford Lectures, p. 269 sq. n. 1; Joyce Social History of Ancient Ireland, i. 286 sq. In Morocco, also, an oath taken on a weapon is considered a particularly solemn form of swearing.