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Quern-Biter

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The sword of Haco I. of Norway. (See Sword.)

“Quern-biter of Hacon the Good,

Wherewith at a stroke he hewed

The millstone through and through


Longfellow.

 

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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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