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Ron or Rone

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The name of Prince Arthur’s spear, made of ebony.

“His spere he nom [took] an honde, tha Ron was thaten [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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