peace weaver

plural peace weavers

1. In early Teutonic culture, a noblewoman viewed as bringing about and maintaining peace between kin groups.

   He opened wide the treasure of his breast, Just as the dear peace weaver bade, The herald who had made him glad.

   1895, Jane Menzies, Cynewulf’s ‘Elene’: A Metrical Translation from Zupitza’s Edition, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, page 19

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   This alliance of convenience was a classic example of the Anglo-Saxon concept of the female ‘peace weaver’ - the woman whose feminine qualities were supposed to weave new bonds of family loyalty.

   1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 165