Seax
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A seax is a small sword, fighting knife or dagger typical of the Germanic peoples of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, especially the Saxons. The name comes from an Old English word for
Merovingian seaxes
The remains of a seax together with a replica
Slater
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A slater, or slate mason, is a tradesperson who covers buildings with slate.
Seax
…not attested in Old English, but taken from an occurrence of scramasaxi in Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks. The name of the roofer's tool, the zax, is a development from this word. Amongst the shape and construction of seaxes, there is a great deal of variation. The most frequent characteristics…
Slater working on a roof
Cutting a slate with a slater's hammer on a slater's stake
A slate roof