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lost
Posted: 05 November 2003 01:49 AM   [ Ignore ]
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I was reading a fantasy story (about knights, dragons etc.) and came across this word: "sellsword"  

I am curious what it might mean. I am not a native English speaker as you can understand and my dictionaries do not have it.

Can anyone help me?

???

Thx!!

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Posted: 05 November 2003 04:14 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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A sellsword is clearly meant as a mercenary soldier of the mediaeval period, at least in the context of fantasy stories and, so I found on Google, a game of the same name.

However, it seems to be missing from all the dictionaries easily found through the yourDictionary site and so I suspect it has been made up recently. Maybe some other Agoran has some more complete knowledge of this word.

Anyway, nice to hear from you lost. Come again.

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Sitran
Posted: 05 November 2003 10:45 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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DerekB:

I suspect it has been made up recently.

Language marches on.  I believe that DerekB is right.  I did a couple of searches and came of with Encyclopedias of imaginary mediaeval worlds.

Wecome, lost!

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Posted: 06 November 2003 06:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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Hello and thanx for that. You’ve been most helpful.

Take care

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