Same as pridwen. This shield had represented on it a picture of the Virgin.
“The temper of his sword, the tried ‘Excaliber,ʹ
The bigness and the length of ‘Rone,ʹ his noble spear,
With ‘Pridwin,ʹ his great shield, and what the proof could bear”
Drayton.
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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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