Byrhtnoth replied Response , `` We will pay Commerce_pay you with spear tips and sword blades . ''

After the battle Byrhtnoth 's body was found Know with its head missing , but his gold-hilted sword was still with his body .

The poem `` Battle Hostile_encounter of Brunanburh '' in the `` Anglo-Saxon Chronicle '' recounts Statement that there were `` never yet as many people killed Killing before this with sword 's edge ... since the east Angles and Saxons came up Motion over the broad sea '' .

An assault by the English using a deceitful ruse ended Process_end the siege when the defenders were all but put Placing to the sword .

This was a ruthless exercise by fire and sword which even in an age of violence was regarded Know as unprecedentedly savage .

When the night watch returned Arriving in the morning she regretted that she was `` not a man to know Know what life it was to lie all night in the fields , or to walk Self_motion upon the causeway with a jack and knapschall , a Glasgow buckler and a broad sword . ''

operation scorch sword ( ) was a surprise airstrike Attack carried out Action by islamic republic of iran air force ( iriaf ) on 30 september 1980 , that damaged Damaging an unk nuclear reactor 17 km south-east of baghdad , iraq .