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a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 49 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Through the treason of Hengist, (which the Britaines call Toill y Killill Hirion, the treason of the long knives) the Nobles and Princes of Britaine were slaine and buried.

1640 W. Vaughan Church Militant 118 The long Knives Complot, which like a Torch From time to time did their gall'd Entrailes scorch.

1820 Cambro-Briton Jan. 171 The meeting of the principal men of the Cymry and the Saxon claimants on the mountain of Caer Caradawg, where the Plot of the Long Knives took place.

1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xx. 226 Hengist had commanded..that..each Saxon should draw his long sax, or knife,..and should plunge it into the throat of his neighbour... This infernal carnage the Welsh have appropriately denominated the treachery of the long knives.

1982 R. Morris Char. King Arthur Medieval Lit. iv. 52 We can see Geoffrey doing this by developing such incidents as the Treachery of the Long Knives, which demonstrates the Saxons' betrayal of universal human values.

2010 T. Duggett Gothic Romanticism ii. 77 Reversing the Treason of the Long Knives, Wordsworth makes his younger self into a civilized Gothic Saxon in need of protection from the barbarous Celtic Briton.