Curtana
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Curtana, also known as the Sword of Mercy, is a ceremonial sword used at the coronation of British kings and queens. One of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, its end is blunt and squared to symb
Procession in the 1685 coronation of James II, including blunt Curtana sword (E) borne by the Earl of Shrewsbury.—Engraving from Sandford (1687), History of the Coronation of James II
Cortain
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Cortain is the short sword of the legendary Ogier the Dane, a paladin of Charlemagne's court. The name is the accusative case declension of Old French corte, meaning "short".
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…as his mother was Norman, and he dwelled for some years in Normandy. The name of Curtana (Anglo-Norman: Curtein) was likely taken from the named sword Cortain from literature in the Carolingian cycle, as the Oxford English Dictionary (1893) had suggested, as have other commentators. A plausible contemporaneous…
Ogier the Dane's sword aimed at Charlot stopped by angel.—From Léon Gautier ed. Chevalerie (1884), design by Luc-Olivier Merson