Brewer's: Harold the Dauntless

Son of Witikind, the Dane. “He was rocked on a buckler, and fed from a blade.” He became a Christian, like his father, and married Eivir, a Danish maid, who had been his page. (SirW.Scott: Harold the Dauntless.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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