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Bows

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/* Catalogue of evidence */
'''Literature'''<br>
* Capitulary of Charlemeigne, Mobilization alert: Aachen, mid-April 806
::Each horseman is to carry shield and spear, long-sword and short-sword, '''bow, quivers and arrows''', and your carts are to contain implements of various kinds” [King 2007]
* Beowulf – Written c.1000 [Garnet 1912]
:* Lines 1432-1435
::“The prince of the Geats
::With, his '''arrowed bow '''deprived one of life,
::Of strife with the sea, so that stood in his vitals
::'''The hard war-arrow ''' : he was in the holm”
:* Lines 1744-1746
::“Who from '''arrowed bow spitefully shoots'''.
::Then is he in his breast pierced under his helmet
::With a '''sharp arrow ''' : he cannot defend him”
:*Lines 1765
::“Or grip of the sword, or '''flight of the arrow'''.”
:*Lines 2437-2439
::“Since him did Haethcyn from his horned bow,