paynims

If you want to have Friar Tuck and Sir Lancelot and El Cid and Ivanhoe in your epic, you have to take their monotheism along with them, because the mental architecture of knightly oaths and vows and fealty and courtly love and smiting paynims and all that jazz does not make sense outside the Christian worldview.

MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel 2009

Ever since Edessa fell to the paynims of Mosul, last year at Christmas, all Christendom has been uneasy about the kingdom of Jerusalem.

A River So Long 2010

Men saw ride before King Etzel on the road many bold knights of many tongues and many mighty troops of Christians and of paynims.

The Nibelungenlied 2007

Of these tallworts are yielded out juices for jointoils and pappasses for paynims.

Finnegans Wake 2006

And truly I have seen of paynims and Saracens that men clepe Augurs, that, when we ride in arms in divers countries upon our enemies, by the flying of fowls they would tell us the prognostications of things that fell after; and so they did full oftentimes, and proffered their heads to-wedde, but if it would fall as they said.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And, sith that Christian men have such belief, that be informed and taught all day by holy doctrine, wherein they should believe, it is no marvel then, that the paynims, that have no good doctrine but only of their nature, believe more largely for their simplesse.

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Then the king was a tyrant, and was come of the line of paynims, and took them and put them in prison in a deep hole.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

Moreover, in times past, the heathen or paynims implored the assistance of five deities, or of one helpful, at least, in five several good offices to those that were to be married.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Moreover, in times past, the heathen or paynims implored the assistance of five deities, or of one helpful, at least, in five several good offices to those that were to be married.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Ever since Edessa fell to the paynims of Mosul, last year at Christmas, all Christendom has been uneasy about the kingdom of Jerusalem.

Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994