What is "prankish"

Usage examples of "prankish".

Few smiths could make such a coat, and very few men could afford to buy one, but Arthur had taken his from a Prankish chieftain he had killed in Armorica.

Outside Ynys Trebes was turmoil, Prankish enemies, blood, poverty and disease, while inside the wall lay learning, music, poetry and beauty.

We still made an occasional raid into Prankish territory, but now we were like wasps trying to sting a bull to death for the Franks were everywhere.

Early in the new spring we fell back before an army of Prankish warriors.

Galahad enquired whether we planned to make our own raids on the Prankish encampments ashore.

The fill made a song telling how Lancelot had dammed the bay with Prankish dead, but in truth the Prince stayed in the palace while Bleiddig attacked.

At night we sang songs and told tales, while by day we watched the Prankish war-bands gather on the shore.

I watched one Prankish warrior, a huge man with horns on his helmet, cut down four trapped defenders with an axe.

Then the door burst open and three sweating Prankish warriors rushed in.

Galahad rammed his spear into a round Prankish shield and jerked it back.

We could see the dark shapes of Prankish spearmen still crossing the causeway and splashing off its end towards the fallen city.

Lancelot and Bors had held the Merman Gate and how they had carpeted the sands with Prankish dead and glutted the gulls with Prankish offal.

Was she imagining Prankish invaders crossing the ford and swarming up the slopes?

Her grandfather had married his second wife, Judith, daughter of the Prankish king, when she was only thirteen.

Judith the Prankish princess, marrying the widowed West Saxon king with his six adult children.