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Sword-Dance

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Sword-Dance.jpg The Ring in TiltingThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.The Ring in TiltingThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.The Ring in TiltingThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.The Ring in TiltingThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.The Ring in TiltingThumbnailsSaxon Hawking—IX. Century.

This drawing represents two men, equipped in martial habits, and each of them armed with a sword and a shield, engaged in a combat; the performance is enlivened by the sound of a horn; the musician acts in a double capacity, and is, together with a female assistant, dancing round them to the cadence of the music; and probably the actions of the combatants were also regulated by the same measure.