Sword and shield can refer to:
- Fencing with sword and shield
- Viking Age arms and armour
- Royal Armouries Ms. I.33
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- The Shield and the Sword, a song by British singer-songwriter Clare Maguire
- The emblem of the KGB (Soviet intelligence agency), and also its successor, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation
Famous quotes containing the words sword and, sword and/or shield:
“Sir Eglamour, that worthy knight,
He took his sword and went to fight;
And as he rode both hill and dale,
Armed upon his shirt of mail,
A dragon came out of his den,
Had slain, God knows how many men!”
—Samuel Rowlands (1570?–1630?)
“Sir Eglamour, that worthy knight,
He took his sword and went to fight;
And as he rode both hill and dale,
Armed upon his shirt of mail,
A dragon came out of his den,
Had slain, God knows how many men!”
—Samuel Rowlands (1570?–1630?)
“The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)