On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
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http://www.saintedwardbrotherhood.org/StEdwardMartyr.pdf
"Another word, more widely applicable than þegn, which came to be
applied only to noblemen, was gesiþ. This can be understood as
companion, but it really means more than that, and also implies the
sworn sword-brother of the Heroic Code, which I shall mention
particularly in a moment."
Ack! Why don't we have an article on the various heroic codes of
antiquity, the medieval period and today? How can heroic code only be
mentioned twice in Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&…
Plenty of sources even on a brief Google search:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&q=%22heroic+code%22&meta=&aq=&am…
Carcharoth