Balmung
Americannoun
noun
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Then came the bonus question: “Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2019
“Bucephalus and Roan Barbary were steeds. For 20 points, what were Balmung and Durendal?”
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2018
The muscles on his short, brawny arms, stood out like ropes; and then Balmung, descending, cleft the air from right to left.
From Hero Tales by Baldwin, James
Balmung, the sword of Siegfried forged by Wieland the smith of the Scandinavian gods.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
So he bound the sword Balmung to the young prince's side, and told him to seek a certain person, who would give him a fine war-horse.
From Bertha Our Little German Cousin by Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard
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