The name of Prince Arthur’s shield.
“He henge an his sweore [neck] acne sceld deore,
His nome on Brutisc [in British] Pridwen ihaten [called].”
Layamon: Brut (twelfth century)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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