Viking halberd difficult to know what kind of weapon is being described in these translations, or the original texts. Many of these terms are shown below. The "atgeir" was a type of bill or halberd, from Old Norse "geirr", "spear". The "atgeirr" is thought to have been a foreign weapon and is rarely mentioned in the sagas, but is famous as the favorite weapon of Gunnar of Hlíðarendi. In Njál's saga this weapon is shown as used mostly for thrusting, but also for hewing. The "höggspjót", literally "hewing spear", takes its name from Old Norse "högg", "stroke, blow, slaughter, beheading" and "spjót",
Types of Women as evidence as to early Greek attitudes towards women, it has received little scholarly attention and has generally been considered to be of little literary merit. Semonides was active during the seventh century BCE, though the "Types of Women" is preserved in the fifth-century CE "Anthology" of Joannes Stobaeus, which was first printed in 1535 by Vittore Trincavelli. The poem is 118 lines long, and written in iambic trimeter. The first 94 lines describe ten women, or types of women: seven are animals, two are elements, and the final woman is a bee. Of the ten types of women in