Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him ; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast.

Hoplites also carried a short sword called a xiphos.

Both noble and common knights wore leather armour and carried javelins, spears and round-tasselled shields ( influenced by Moorish shields ), as well as a sword.

In the 12th and 13th centuries, soldiers typically carried a sword, a lance, a javelin, and either bow and arrows or crossbow and darts.

In his hand he holds a table leg instead of the original sword and myths abound as to how the switch was carried out and by whom.

Their primary weapon was the two-handed Danish battleaxe, although every man would have carried a sword as well.

The Prince, who had begged to be allowed to go to war ( taking the sword carried by the first Napoleon at Austerlitz with him ) and who had worried his commanders by his dash and daring, was described by Wolseley as " a plucky young man, and he died a soldier's death.

Later, he appears as an old, one-eyed stranger and sticks his sword into the tree Barnstokkr during a feast at the palace of King Völsung, declaring that “ he who draws this sword out of the trunk shall receive it from me as a gift, and he himself shall prove that he has never carried a better sword than this one ,” which King Volsung ’ s son Sigmund does.

The Sword of State is carried by the sword bearer before the Queens personal representative to the Isle of Man, the Lieutenant Governor, at each meeting of Tynwald day and dates from not later than the 12th Century.

The length of sabres varied, and most were carried in a scabbard hanging from a shoulder belt known as a baldric or from a waist-mounted sword belt, usually with slings of differing lengths to permit the scabbard to hang below the rider's waist level.

In combat, he also carried a spear as well as his father's sword and possessed a golden cuirass.

In the early 1970s the name was changed to the fighting Scots and the mascot to a fighting Scotsman in a kilt who carried a sword.

His eldest son, Thomas, Earl of Surrey carried the sword of state.

This work, which dates from c. 1842, depicts him being carried into battle on a litter, his face uncovered and unscarred, his sword in his right hand.

The heavy Carthaginian cavalry carried two javelins and a curved slashing sword with a heavy shield for protection.

The universal Landsknecht weapon was a short sword called a Katzbalger, carried in addition to the Landsknecht's main weapon.

He fought the murmillo, who carried a short sword and a helmet with the image of a fish on the front.

The sword was carried by Túrin, who had it reforged as Gurthang.

The troops were usually armed with a bow, a ' short spear ' and a sword or axe, carried a wicker shield.

Especially in the case of the hunters and warriors, a long Tibetan sword and deerskin bags may be carried.

For instance the sword carried by Hikaru Sulu in the Star Trek movie of 2009 had its blade unfold from its own form into the fully extended position from the state of a simple handle.

When, on 10 January 503, the city of Amid ( modern Diyarbakır ) was captured by the Persians after a three months ' siege and all its citizens put to the sword or carried captive, a panic seized the whole district, and the Christian inhabitants of many neighbouring cities planned to leave their homes and flee to the west of the Euphrates.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Ajax, " Unconquered ", and furious, falls upon his own sword, " conquered by his sorrow ".

At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and finally his body, according to the representation of his death, was torn apart.

That he enjoyed warfare there can be no doubt ; yet he was not like the ordinary fighting bishops of the Middle Ages, whose sole indication of their religious role was to avoid the shedding of blood by using a mace in battle instead of a sword.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

Arrival or departure of a young warrior or hero, maybe Theseus arriving at Athens and being recognized because of his sword by Aegeus.

This sword became the means by which the incestuous intercourse between her and her father was discovered, whereupon she put an end to her own life.

Beowulf prepares himself for battle ; he is presented with a sword, Hrunting, by Unferth, a warrior who had doubted him and wishes to make amends.

Bragi generously offers his sword, horse, and an arm ring as peace gift but Loki only responds by accusing Bragi of cowardice, of being the most afraid to fight of any of the Æsir and Elves within the hall.

Chapter 2: 12 contains a succinct but unequivocal message: “ You also, O Ethiopians, / Shall be killed by my sword .”

Some question whether the translation " You, also, O Ethiopians / Shall be killed by my sword " is a good translation, given the fact that Ethiopia is a long way away from Jerusalem.

In this reading, his good nature is so revolted by these thoughts that he gives his sword and dagger to Fleance to be sure they do not come true, but is so nervous at Macbeth's approach that he demands them back.

In addition, training with a bokken does not carry the same mortal risk associated with that of a live sword, both for the user and other practitioners near by.

In pursuit, Jen dives into an adjoining river to retrieve the sword and is then rescued by Fox.

Mu Bai blocks the needles with his sword and avenges his master's death by mortally wounding Fox, only to realize that one of the darts hit him in the neck.

Rong Cai of Emory University asserts that the sword Green Destiny is passed along to men, and is ( with the exception of Jen ) used only by male figures, making the sword a phallic symbol of masculinity and male authority.

For by fire and by his sword the Lord will judge all flesh, and the slain of the Lord will be many.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

The caracole was not particularly successful, however, and the charge ( whether with sword, pistol, or lance ) remained as the primary mode of employment for many types of European cavalry, although by this time it was delivered in much deeper formations and with greater discipline than before.