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/or shield:
“She sings of a sword so white,
so luminous, that its own light
alone must slay;
she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
and I creep away.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“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)